Sacco and Vanzetti

Cultural  

1. Two anarchists (see anarchism), Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were convicted of a robbery and two murders in Massachusetts in the early 1920s and sentenced to death. Sacco and Vanzetti were born in Italy but had been living in the United States for years when they were tried. Several faulty procedures took place in the trial. Many people have thought that Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted because of their political views and not because of the evidence against them. Their supporters obtained several delays of their execution, but a special committee appointed by the governor of Massachusetts upheld the original jury's verdict, and they were put to death in 1927. Liberals and radicals all over the world were outraged by the execution.

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Board of Education, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

After all, Parker was arrested and fined while protesting the dubious murder case against Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti.

From Washington Times • Jul. 18, 2020

The line for which Dos Passos is best known comes from his anguished account, in “The Big Money,” of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial: “All right we are two nations.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 29, 2019

Sacco and Vanzetti were Italian immigrants who were accused of being part of a robbery and murder in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1920.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

On May 5, Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested in South Braintree, Massachusetts, and held on suspicion of being the guilty bandits.

From Labor's Martyrs by Marcantonio, Vito