Thursday, March 27, 2014

Sacco and Vanzetti Part 1

Sacco and Vanzetti Part 1 


This is probably one of the biggest cases of the 1920s. It had such an impact on not only the nation but also the world.  These two men Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were anarchists which only added fuel to the racial fire during this period.

The basics of this trial are as follows.

Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted in 1920 of committing armed robbery and murdering two men. The case gained massive media attention because they were anarchists and the fact that they were Italian. It caused an uproar.  They were convicted and sentenced to death.


I think due to the fact that these men were immigrants and the fact that they were anarchists added major fuel to the fire. There was the Red Scare and just so much happening during this period that the trial was just an explosion of just all of that combusting into one trial.  The nation was turned upside and was extremely divided due to how many parties people were a part of.

In my next blog, I'll discuss more in details about this race war during this period and this party war as well.



1 comment:

  1. Yaritza -
    Don't you believe that this was also the first time that the American judicial system was called into question?

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