Nicola Sacco And Bartolomeo Vanzetti
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70 years ago, on August 23rd, 1927, the State of Massachusetts executed
immigrant anarchists, , after an
international campaign to stop their execution. This page is a tribute to
their memory.
Nicola Sacco was born in Italy and emigrated to the United States in 1908.
With Bartolomeo Vanzetti he wa ....
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.... Massachusetts, and
convicted on July 14, 1921, Vanzetti left a most moving articulate
statement of the vindication of Sacco and himself in an atmosphere of
hysteria the two were sentenced to die and were electrocuted on August 23,
1927. With the encouragement of supporters, Vanzeffi issued letters and
articles from his prison cell and displayed a highly sensitive intelligence
despite the fact that he was largely self-educated. The Sacco-Vanzetti case
inspired controversy reaching worldw ....
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