sacco and vanzetti americans struggle with postwar issues the 1920s us history ii
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues
The 1920s US History II
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Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti• Italian
Immigrants
• Anarchists
• Dodged draft during WWI
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Sacco & Vanzetti: May 1920
• Arrested and charged with robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, MA
• Witnesses had said that the criminals had appeared to be Italian
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Sacco and
Vanzetti• Asserted their
innocence and provided alibis
• Evidence against them was circumstantial
• Jury still found them guilty and sentenced them to death
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Vanzetti• "I would not wish to a dog or a snake, to the most
low and misfortunate creature of the earth — I would not wish to any of them what I have had to suffer for things that I am not guilty of. But my conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I am an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian... If you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already". (Vanzetti spoke on 19 April 1927, in Dedham, MA, where their case was heard in the Norfolk County courthouse.)
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Trail Response• The Sacco and Vanzetti case aroused
protests all over the world. After the announcement of the guilty verdict, violent protests broke out. In Paris, a bomb exploded at the house of the American ambassador. In Rome, and mob threatened the American embassy. Some protests were peaceful. In Uruguay, citizens mounted a general strike and a boycott of American goods.
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Ben Shahn• Ben Shahn (1898-1969) was outraged
at the brazen injustice of the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Shahn created a series of 23 protest paintings. His works helped galvanize support for Sacco and Vanzetti and made the artist famous. Ben Shahn went on to have a distinguished career as a painter and graphic artist.
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Ben Shahn: Sacco and Vanzetti
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Ben Shahn: Passion for Justice
http://www.njn.net/artsculture/shahn/mural1.html