Sacco and vanzetti

Were Sacco and Vanzetti convicted and eventually executed because of popular beliefs about anarchy? The majority of the evidence on Sacco and Vanzetti points to the fact that they did not receive a fair trial, but why is that? Many people of the time feel that can be attributed to the fact that both of the men were Italian immigrants. While this may have aided the feeling of hated that was already preeminent at the trial. It was not however the main reason that the two men were not given their fair trial that every one is alleged to have the right to. The main reason that Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted, and eventually executed with out the proper process of appeals, is the fact that they were members of a militant group of anarchists. Both Sacco and Vanzetti were members of a movement that was considered by many of the people of the day to be the evil advisory of the free world. This was the felling in the wake of world war one and the red scare.

The movement of anarchism has never been led by a single man, but many people have been influential in its cause over the years. One such man was Luigi Galleani. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, was one of the leading Italian anarchists in America. Sacco

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Busch spent so much time reviewing all of these cases that his book was rather segregated. That would have been a dangerous precedent, and anarchists looking to make more of a shocking impact on capitalism would probably not stop at robbing a shoe factory.

Following the assassination of President McKinley, anarchism was perceived as a terrible cultish enemy of the United States of America. Suskind states that Sacco and Vanzetti were victoms of an Idea. This may have inspired them to take up the cause of helping to better the lives of their fellow immigrants. This left Vanzetti to care for his mother alone. He also attempts to remove all creditability from Sacco and Vanzetti. The government may have allowed a crazed bigot to be the judge for this trial simply to allow him to take the blame for the trial being a farce. Popular feelings about anarchy going into the trial were far from positive. He shows how they grew up and lived their lives before their arrest in an attempt to generate sympathy. He was unique in his prejudice, most people involved were prejudice against the two men because they were Italians not because they were “reds”. New Jersey: Princeton

University Press, 1991. This book had a great amount of detail on the prejudice and miss-information regarding anarchy and communism. Much of the book appears to be a revolt of some sort.

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