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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. They were tried and found guilty.
Summary of Evidence in the Sacco & Vanzetti Case. Analysis of the most important evidence presented in the 1921 murder trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
May 27, 2021 · Sacco and Vanzetti’s Trial of the Century Exposed Injustice in 1920s America. The pair’s path to becoming media sensations began 100 years ago. To this day the two remain emblems of...
- Annika Neklason
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.
Aug 30, 2024 · In full: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti, defendants in a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts, U.S. (1921–27), that resulted in their executions.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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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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.
