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  1. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants. The two men acknowledged that they were radicals and that they had avoided serving in World War One.

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  3. Aug 30, 2024 · Sacco and Vanzetti, defendants in a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts (1921–27) that resulted in their executions. Many people felt that the trial had been unfair and that the two men had been convicted for their radical anarchist beliefs.

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  4. Sacco-Vanzetti case, Murder trial in Massachusetts (1920–27). After the robbery and murder of a paymaster and a guard at a shoe factory (1920), police arrested the Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco (1891–1927), a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888–1927), a fish peddler.

  5. Nov 15, 2023 · This resource features some background reading and tasks on the Red Scare and Sacco and Vanzetti's trial. Students use the information to define key terms before practising their reasoning by completing two incomplete analytical paragraphs, and producing their own from scratch.

  6. Jan 7, 2020 · Two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Batolomeo Vanzetti, died in the electric chair in 1927. Their case was widely seen as an injustice. After convictions for murder, followed by a lengthy legal battle to clear their names, their executions were met with mass protests across America and Europe.

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  8. Sacco and Vanzetti: Were Two Innocent Men Executed? In 1921, two Italian immigrants were tried and convicted of robbery and murder. Six years later, they were executed. The case of Sacco and Vanzetti drew international attention and is still debated today.