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Charged with the crime of murder on May 5, Sacco and Vanzetti were indicted on September 14, 1920, “R.” means “Defendants’ Exceptions in Commonwealth of Massachu¬ setts vs. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti”; “M. R.” means “De¬ fendants’ Amended Bill of Exceptions on Motion for New Trial, 1926.”J
Vanzetti (with the moustache) and Nicola Sacco were convicted of robbing a shoe garnered international attention money. clams. other, a Nicola full-time Massachusetts, as with his shoe edger. Sacco, worked He lived in were tried and found guilty 1921.
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.
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.
1. How were Sacco and Vanzetti linked to the fear of Bolshevism and anarchism? 2. What role did a fear of foreigners play in the accusations of murder? 3. Why did the broadside criticize the verdict and the committee that reviewed the trial?
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In this book, Paul Avrich outlines the anarchist context of the Sacco-Vanzetti case and the connections to anarchist groups that the two men had. Avrich provides a lot of context for the time period, and touches on subjects such as the Palmer Raids, the first Red Scare, and Luigi Galleani’s impact on Sacco and Vanzetti’s politics.
