History of the United States II / Unit 9 USH2 1216 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sacco and Vanzetti
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The idea
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-born anarchists, were arrested in May nineteen twenty for a robbery-murder at a factory in Braintree, Massachusetts.
In practice
Convicted in July nineteen twenty-one, and executed on August twenty-third, nineteen twenty-seven.
Where people slip
The Yawp says their fate epitomised the Red Scare, and that the case moved leftists and artists to express sympathy with the accused.
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