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there were protesters and most of those protesters were immigrants dark skinned people. The protests name was G-20 ( Remember Sacco and Vanzetti). In this situation propaganda was more utilized for the protesters. Police made sure to take great opportunity to reveal the dangers of the protesters with the connections of race further proving how dangerous Sacco and Vanzetti were to the public. “ “The Globe and Mail” Canada's most read daily newspaper” had an article written by Colin Freeze whom wrote that

of rampant xenophobia, Sacco and Vanzetti were convenient scapegoats”(Finkel 1). This quote is from the article written by Finkel it discusses how the case has been looked over again. Sacco and Vanzetti were italian immigrants and known anarchists that were convicted for the crime of a paymaster and his guard. Rampant xenophobia is defined as an irrational fear against foreigners. Since america was in the mindset of xenophobia it was easy to blame Sacco and Vanzetti for the crime. The trial was effected

thriving country. It was not all celebration however, there was a dark and prejudiced side of America during this time which was especially dark for the infamous pair Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. After a string of burglaries and then a double homicide took place involving two Italian men near Sacco and Vanzetti around Charlestown Massachusetts stakes were high for the recover the criminals. Unfortunately after 20 days of searching the pair came in contact with a car linked to the crime and fitting

Sacco and Vanzetti Following the end of World War I, evolution began to take its toll on the nation as a whole. There were different types of entertainment that began to emerge, at this time. Many different ways of being entertained started to become more prevalent than ever. America has now established new cultural dominance (Currell 35). With entertainment and many other industries booming with business and success, there was a tremendous increase in gang activities and gang relations. Along with

strikes and a targeted upon communists and foreigners. This was also the time of the red scare. The Red Scare had begun following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917; a nationwide fear of communists, socialists and anarchists. The Sacco and Vanzetti case was an extremely controversial murder trial held in Braintree,

To some historians, the Sacco and Vanzetti verdict represents one of the darkest moments for American democracy. Today, it is clear that Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested and convicted because of who they were- Non-Protestant, Non-Fundamentalists who believed in something different from the majority of the people. The battle between modernism and

the 1900’s, fear drove America. The Red Scare was a time when Americans were afraid of the threat of Communism. In the Sacco and Vanzetti case, two Italian anarchists were convicted of crimes which they were clearly innocent of. The Ku Klux Klan attempted to keep African-Americans out of positions of power and for brief time was successful. The Red Scare, Sacco Vanzetti case and the rise of the KKK all are example of how American’s fear the unknown and what we don’t understand. After Red Scare

going unnoticed until the late 1920’s when the Sacco and Vanzetti case brought awareness of issue to much of the United States. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti “two obscure Italian aliens, became the focal point of one of the most controversial episodes in American history”;(ATF CH11p257) when they were arrested on May 5, 1920 for “suspicious character” and connection with the Slater Morrill Shoe Company robbery. Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested carrying hunting weapons and extra ammunition

On March 13, 1925 the state of Tennessee passed the Butler Act. This law prohibited teaching the Theory of Evolution in Tennessee public schools. Any teacher who taught a theory that denied the story of the Divine Creation would be punished by a fine. The American Civil Liberties Union offered legal defense to any Tennessee teacher who would break the law and fight it in court. John Thomas Scopes was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, and he intentionally taught his class about the theory of evolution

In 1920, during the height of the Red Scare, a shoemaker, Nicola Sacco (1891-1927), and a fish peddler, Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927), were accused of robbing and murdering the paymaster and guard of a shoe company in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Known as anarchists and draft evaders, the accused men faced a hostile judge and a public convinced of their guilt. Despite Sacco 's corroborated testimony that he was at the Italian consulate in Boston at the time of the murder, the two were found