A prime example of this tactic was the largely successful effort to turn Niccolo Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti into victims of an American criminal justice system intent on punishing two Italians, not for robbery and murder, but for being radicals.
(2) Os nomes sao Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) e
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927).
The campaign to free imprisoned anarchists Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti ignited mobilization the world over in the 1920s.
Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti were both born in Italy, in 1891 and 1888 respectively.
In 1927, amid protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.
Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti were, respectively, a shoe-maker and fish-monger, who were vocal about the oppression that the working class were experiencing as part of the "Red Scare" that engulfed the nation after World War I.
In the 20th century's adolescence, the American brand of anarchism proselytized by immigrants from Europe like Emma Goldman took on a violent strain -- President William McKinley was assassinated, Wall Street was bombed, Ferdinando Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (allegedly) robbed a bank in Massachusetts and were eventually electrocuted in 1921, mail bombs wrapped in brown paper were sent politicians all over the country.
(7) In seguito, arrestato insieme a un altro agitatore di ascendenza italiana, Joseph Ettor, con la falsa accusa di avere istigato l'assassinio della scioperante Anna Lo Pizzo, dal carcere Giovannitti lu capace di ispirare maniiestazioni di solidarieta negli Stati Uniti, in Italia e in altri paesi europei che, per adesioni, furono seconde soltanto alle iniziative che si sarebbero svolte quindici anni piu tardi per chiedere la concessione della grazia a Nicola Sacco e
Bartolomeo Vanzetti. (8)
Following a jury trial Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti leading figures in a violent anarchist movement were sentenced to death and summarily executed for these murders in 1927.
SACCO & VANZETTI The Men, the Murders and the Judgment of Mankind | BRUCE WATSON: Were Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti, affiliated with a violent anarchist group, cold-blooded killers--or the innocent victims of ethnic prejudice?