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Sacco and Vanzetti, 1921

On May 31, 1921, Nicola Sacco, a 32-year-old shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a 29-year-old fish peddler, went on trial for murder in Boston. More than a year earlier, on April 15, 1920, a paymaster and a payroll guard had been killed during a payroll heist in Braintree, Massachusetts, near Boston. Three weeks later, Sacco and Vanzetti were charged with the crime.

Many Americans found the evidence against the men flimsy and believed that they were being prosecuted for their immigrant background and their radical political beliefs. This broadside, published by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, articulates the reasons for the pair’s persecution: "The two workers were convicted in the midst of the red hysteria of 1921. They hold views opposed by the controlling influences of America." Sacco and Vanzettti were both Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists who advocated the violent overthrow of capitalism. It was the height of the post–World War I Red Scare, and the atmosphere was seething with anxieties about Bolshevism, alie

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Aug. 23, 1927: Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco Executed

What I wish more than all in this last hour of agony is that our case and our fate may be understood in their real being and serve as a tremendous lesson to the forces of freedom, that our suffering and death will not have been in vain. — Bartolomeo Vanzetti in letter to Nicola Sacco’s son.

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born immigrants, workers, and anarchists, who were tried and convicted in 1921 for the armed robbery and murder of two payroll guards. The trial took place during the height of the Red Scare, and symbolized the prejudiced views against immigrants, labor unions, and political radicals that were fueled by the Department of Justice raids — known as “the Palmer Raids” — in targeted communities. After seven years of legal appeals and international protest, the two men were executed on August 23, 1927, in Boston.

“Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco” by anti-war painter and photographer Ben Shahn. Source: The Museum of Modern Art.

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The case of Sacco and Vanzetti

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Sacco and Vanzetti

Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts

For other uses, see Sacco and Vanzetti (disambiguation).

Nicola Sacco (pronounced[niˈkɔːlaˈsakko]; April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (pronounced[bartoloˈmɛːovanˈtsetti,-ˈdzet-]; June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Seven years later, they were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison.

After a few hours' deliberation on July 14, 1921, the jury convicted Sacco and Vanzetti of first-degree murder and they were sentenced to death by the trial judge. Anti-Italianism, anti-immigrant, and anti-anarchist bias were suspected as having heavily influenced the verdict. A series of appeals followed, funded largely by the private Sacco and Vanzetti Defense Committee. The appea