Saturday, May 3, 2014

Sacco and Vanzetti Part 2


In my first blog post about Sacco and Vanzetti, I talked about the basics of the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, In this blog post, I will be focusing more on the impact the trial made and what followed after the trial itself as well as my own opinion on the verdict.

So the whole trial of Sacco and Vanzetti stirred up a lot of debate in the United States and there would be another trial later on in the decade that would spark just as much debate. That case would The Scopes Trial but that's for another blog post.

In the Sacco and Vanzetti case, each man had to recount their anarchist beliefs in court and it wasn't that hard for the jury to find them guilty for their crimes.There were many appeals after this but to no avail. 

There were protests in many countries on their behalf for those who truly believed in their innocence but also were anarchists themselves and these protests were too no avail. The two men were eventually sentenced to death.

After they were put to death, there were riots that occurred in various places and there's been debated on whether or not they were executed because of their Italian heritage and anarchist beliefs.  

I personally believe they were wrongly tried for their crimes and the time period in which they lived in played a huge part as to how the verdict came out to be. It was time where there was much going on from The Red Scare to just getting out of a war to pure chaos. I don't think America was quite ready for such a trial. I think because the Red Scare had been taking a hold of in American society, I think it just served to fuel the fire for this trial and hence why the trial was just made so huge and blown to such a large proportion.

People in America during this time needed something else to focus on besides The Red Scare alone.


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