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    and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The two were tried for killing a paymaster and his bodyguard. They were charged with murder and faced the death penalty. Many people protested to their sentence. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s court sentence sparked a large debate through the nation back then that carries out today as to whether it was justifiable or not. Nicola Sacco worked a steady job at a shoe factory in Stoughton. He took a day off of work on April 15th. Bartolomeo Vanzetti was a self employed

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    as a result. One of the most well-known controversies of this time was the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti created a split within the nation of minorities and immigrants versus the frightened and prejudiced homegrown Americans (“Sacco and Vanzetti: Were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti Treated Fairly by the American Justice System?”). As a result, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti fell victim to an unfair trial based upon the stigma associated with immigrants at that time,

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    These two men were named Sacco and Vanzetti and they were believed to be anarchists due to their ethnicity which brought about an unjust trial which, in return, sparked a fire within the United States. The Sacco and Vanzetti case brought to the surface the problems dealing with discrimination against immigrants because their trial was believed to be unjust; therefore, we now have laws abolishing the injustice and discrimination towards immigrants. Sacco and Vanzetti were two Italian immigrants who were

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    The case of Sacco and Vanzetti sparked a national outcry for justice as well as a national debate over American values. Two Italian immigrants, shoe operative Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were falsely accused robbing Braintree’s Slater and Morrill Shoe Company and murdering two of the factory’s workers (After the Fact 256). At the time of the Braintree holdup, the police were investigating a similar crime in Bridgewater. In both cases a gang was involved, and the suspects escaped

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    of Sacco and Vanzetti, two italian anarchists took place in 1920. They were “falsely” convicted of robbing a paymaster and killing the guard. They bonded over their ideal of anarchism and used violence to fight against violent and unjust governments. Their case caused extreme tension between immigrants and American people. Thousands of people around the world were devastated by this case and began to speak up. Although their innocence was supported by many people, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed

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    Chapter 11, Saco and Vanzetti, in After the Fact begins with a story of an armed robbery in a bank and an armed robbery and murder to a man on the side of the road in Massachusetts during the time of the nativist mood in America. The Braintree and Bridgewater crimes, in 1919 and 1920, seemed to show a patterned and drew attention to Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists, where were soon arrested for the crimes. After a long trial, suspicious evidence and

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    . I wish to forgive some people for what they are now doing to me.” These were the last words of Vanzetti just before his death. Two innocent men executed because of their background information, the location they were in during a crime and the prejudice trials they had to face trying to prove their innocence. Nicola Sacco was born on June 11, 1888, in Torremaggiore, Italy while Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born on April 22, 1891, in Villafelletto, Italy (www.workerslibery.org). These two men were both

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    shot to death and $15,766 was stolen. The two killers were said to be Italian foreigners ("Sacco and Vanzetti Trial"). In frenzy, the police hunt down two revolutionary Italian foreigners at fault the homicide on. Twenty days after the fact, on May 5, 1920, the unfortunate twosome of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were captured while getting an auto associated with the homicide ("Sacco-Vanzetti Case"). The two men were attempted and discovered liable under conditional confirmation (Stark 1).

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    fear and despise certain groups. These groups usually included eastern and southern Europeans. The arrest and trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti was fixated more on the battle between Anarchy and American traditions rather than the actual evidence the prosecution presented. The Red Scare played a massive part in this. The Sacco and Vanzetti case reflects the fears of immigration, immigrant crime and anarchy. Within a week of going into war on April 1917, acts of political repression

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    Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Sacco and Vanzetti had both immigrated from Italy

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