The Case Of Nicola Sacco And Bartolomeo Vanzetti

After a robbery and murder took place at a factory in Massachusetts in May 1920, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and accused of being participants in the crime. Both men were Italian immigrants; Sacco was a shoemaker and Vanzetti was a traveling laborer. The men were also both anarchists, which means they believed in a self-managed society. Although they believed violence was acceptable, they had little to no ties to the robbery and murder. The most concrete evidence was the fact that one of six bullets the security guard was shot with could have potentially been fired by Sacco’s gun. The Sacco-Vanzetti case did not gain much popularity during the trial, however, eventually, the case “attracted international attention during

Even though most of the people who claimed to be “native-born American” people had also come from other places of the world at some point, they considered immigrants a threat. Ethnic and racial diversity was not accepted by some, and social tension between opposite views arose in the 1920s. Vanzetti claimed that he suffered for things that he was truly guilty of, such as being a radical and being Italian (Chapter 20, Seagull version, Pg. 780-781). Sacco’s and Vanzetti’s “Death House” letters showed me that both men had accepted their fate and had little hope that they would avoid execution, however, they also showed great appreciation to those that had fought for their freedom and they pressed those who supported them to continue to try to change the way things were even after Sacco and Vanzetti were executed. Vanzetti said in one of his letters, “We have no hope… That we lost and have to die does not diminish our appreciation and gratitude for your great solidarity with us and our families... Our ideal, you our comrades, will live by millions; we have won, but not vanquished. Just treasure our suffering, our sorrow, our mistakes, our defeats, our passion for future battles and for the great