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Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Sacco-Vanzetti Case . On Apr. 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South Braintree, Mass., and his guard were shot and killed by two men who escaped with over $15,000. It was thought from reports of witnesses that the murderers were Italians. Because Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had g... Read more
American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. Founded (1920) by such prominent figures as Jane Addams, Helen Keller, Judah Magnus, and Norman Thomas, the ACLU grew out of earlier grou... Read more
Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson 1888-1959, American dramatist, b. Atlantic, Pa., grad. Univ. of North Dakota, 1911. His plays, many of which are written in verse, usually concern social and moral problems. Anderson was a journalist until the successful production in 1924 of What Price Glory?, a war drama writte... Read more
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair (Upton Beall Sinclair), 1878-1968, American novelist and socialist activist, b. Baltimore, grad. College of the City of New York, 1897. He was one of the muckrakers , and a dedication to social and industrial reform underlies most of his writing. The Jungle (1906), a brutally grap... Read more
anarchism
anarchism [Gr.,=having no government], theory that equality and justice are to be sought through the abolition of the state and the substitution of free agreements between individuals. Central to anarchist thought is the belief that society is natural and that people are good but are corrupted by a... Read more
Dedham
Dedham , town (1990 pop. 23,782), seat of Norfolk co., E Mass., on the Charles River, a suburb of Boston; inc. 1636. Primarily residential, the town has some light manufacturing. America's oldest frame house, the Fairbanks house (1636), is in Dedham, which is said to have had the first public school... Read more
Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (Benjamin Shahn), 1898-1969, American painter and graphic artist, b. Lithuania. Shahn emigrated to the United States in 1906. After working in lithography until 1930, his style crystallized in a series of 23 paintings concerning the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, among them The Passion of Sacco a... Read more
Massachusetts
Massachusetts , most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by New York (W), Vermont and New Hampshire (N), the Atlantic Ocean (E), and Rhode Island and Connecticut (S). Facts and Figures Area, 8,257 sq mi (21,386 sq km). Pop. (2000) 6,349,097, a 5.5... Read more
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter 1882-1965, American jurist, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939-62), b. Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to the United States as a boy and later received (1906) his law degree from Harvard law school. He was assistant U.S. attorney (1906-10) in New York state and legal ... Read more

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Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...witnesses that the murderers were Italians. Because Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had gone with two other Italians...procedure in the trial had been correct. The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti on Aug. 22, 1927, was preceded by worldwide...seemed to prove conclusively that the pistol found on ... Read more
Arthur Garfield Hays
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...concerned with civil liberties; he distinguished himself as a defense attorney in the Scopes Case (1925) in Tennessee and in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case (1927). He was counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union and conducted (1937) the investigation... Read more
Maxwell Anderson
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...production in 1924 of What Price Glory?, a war drama written with Laurence Stallings. Winterset (1935), based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, is probably Anderson's most successful verse tragedy. He wrote many historical dramas including Elizabeth the... Read more
Ella Reeve Bloor
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...for woman's suffrage, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, organized and raised funds for such causes as the Sacco-Vanzetti case and the American League against War and Fascism, and also served as an accomplished labor organizer. A radical... Read more
Upton Sinclair
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...California. Among Sinclair's other novels exposing social evils are King Coal (1917), Oil! (1927), Boston (on the Sacco-Vanzetti Case , 1928), and Little Steel (1938). In his social studies, such as The Brass Check (1919), on journalism, and The... Read more
American Civil Liberties Union
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...in almost every major civil liberties case contested in American courts. Among these...monkey trial in Tennessee (1925), the Sacco-Vanzetti case (1920s), the federal court test (1933...Education (1954) school desegregation case. In the late 1970s the ACLU defended... Read more
Sacco and Vanzetti
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Sacco and Vanzetti Nicola Sacco (died 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927), Italian-bo...the 1920s in the United States. The execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Boston in 1927 brought to an...sizable portion of the American intellectual community their case symbolized the fight ... Read more
Anderson, (James) Maxwell
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...combined poetic drama with formal verse, philosophy, and political commentary; and in Winterset (1935), based on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and Key Largo (1939), whose action begins in the Spanish Civil War, he sought to make tragic poetry out of the... Read more
anarchism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...forbidding anarchists to enter the country, and Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were among those deported. The Sacco-Vanzetti Case attests to the fear of anarchism in the United States. As an organized movement, anarchism is largely dead, but... Read more
Sinclair, Upton
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...dishonesty in President Warren G. Harding's (1865 – 1923) administration. Boston (1928), a novel about the Sacco-Vanzetti case (in which two Italian men, believed by many to have been innocent, were convicted and executed for having committed... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Sacco-Vanzetti case"

Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History SACCO-VANZETTI CASE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE. Nicola Sacco, a...or innocence, the case is an extremely...the United States, Sacco and Vanzetti received...men. The letters Sacco and Vanzetti wrote...commentary on the case. BIBLIOGRAPHY Avrich... Read more
Bartolomeo Vanzetti's Last Statement (21 August 1927)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...scholars generally consider the case a miscarriage of justice: the...University See also Anarchists ; Sacco-Vanzetti Case . My Dear Dante: I still hope...understand your father's and my case and your father's and my principles...the man. The documents of our case, which you and other ... Read more
American Civil Liberties Union
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...United States. These included the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, in which two Italian-born anarchists...public schools; and the Scottsboro Case, in which eight indigent African-Americ...War I. Baldwin referred to the case as "the most scandalous of any... Read more
International Labor Defense
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...actions was a campaign to keep Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti from receiving the death penalty. Sacco and Vanzetti, who were anarchists, were convicted for...and teachings. But its involvement in the Scottsboro case, more than any other protest, garnered a great deal of...ILD and ... Read more

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Sacco & Vanzetti: the case resolved.
Magazine article from: National Review; 5/23/1986; ; 700+ words ; Sacco & Vanzetti: The Case Resolved THIS IS A VERY well-written book...became interested in this long-moldering case. He had thought, too, that Sacco and Vanzetti...and Vanzetti intimately and who ran the case for the anarchists. The father confided... Read more
Davis, John, ed. Sacco & Vanzetti.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Kliatt; 11/1/2004; ; 208 words ; DAVIS, John, ed. Sacco & Vanzetti. (Rebel Lives.) Ocean Books. 119p. bibliog. c2004. 1-876175-85-0...Sinclair, and H. G. Wells. In part four are more modern essays on the case, including a piece by historian Howard Zinn written on the 50th... Read more
(book reviews)
Magazine article from: African American Review; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...and Internationalization in the Jewish Labor Movement in the 1920s ; Helene Cristol, The Ethnic Factor in the Sacco-Vanzetti Case ; Hartmut Keil, The Impact of World War I on the German American Community in the 1920s ; Jean-Pierre Martin... Read more
The Theme Is Freedom.
Magazine article from: National Review; 11/5/1990; ; 700+ words ; ...surviving magazines. In each case Mr. Dos Passos, who is the most...radical movement by way of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Part Portuguese in his own...the rawest of raw deals. The Sacco-Vanzetti case, however, opened Dos Passos... Read more
Francis Russell, RIP. (obituary)
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/21/1989; ; 476 words ; ...had greatly involved himself in exploring the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He began his exploration confident that both...and brought out a second book 24 years later: Sacco & Vanzetti.- The Case Resolved. But his major literary-historical achievement... Read more
The Knave of Boston and Other Ambiguous Massachusetts Characters.
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 1/1/1988; ; 630 words ; ...by his painstaking and unsparing research into the Sacco-Vanzetti case (he entered the lists convinced that the two were innocent...Heritage and Horizon. As is by no means always the case when ephemeral journalism is captured in hard bindings... Read more
Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections.(INSIGHT)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 10/21/2007; 700+ words ; ...Thayer's role as presiding judge at the Sacco and Vanzetti case 10 years before. That case was an explosive episode with worldwide repercussions...Worcester. This city had many links to the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Both men had spent time in Worcester County, Mr. Sacco...just ... Read more
Convergence Center (Part of Democracy in America: The National Campaign).
Magazine article from: C: International Contemporary Art; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...activate them, the objects appeared impotent inside a large glass case and roped off by stanchions. These three projects showed the...to his son Dante, 1927) (2008), thus referencing the 1927 Sacco-Vanzetti execution, which many believe was a politically motivated... Read more