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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

Encyclopedia entries related to "Sacco-Vanzetti case"

Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...prove that Sacco and Vanzetti were innocent. Over the next six years, Sacco and Vanzetti's lawyers presented...final power to reopen a case on the basis of new...crimes. He absolved Sacco and Vanzetti of any involvement...
Sacco and Vanzetti
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Boston in...community their case symbolized the...left), and the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee...image of the case into a political...defendants. Therefore Sacco and Vanzetti stood convicted...
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Sacco-Vanzetti Case . On Apr. 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South...witnesses that the murderers were Italians. Because Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had gone with two other Italians to a garage to claim a car...
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1920). In May 1920, Nicola Sacco, a shoemaker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler, were arrested for the murder of a paymaster and guard in a robbery at a South Braintree, Massachusetts, shoe factory.In...
Sacco‐Vanzetti case
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Sacco‐Vanzetti case originated in the robbery (April 15, 1920) of...who killed the paymaster and his guard. Nicola Sacco (1891–1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888–1927) were charged with the...
Frankfurter, Felix
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law ...Frankfurter Frankfurter's contribution to the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti identified him as an activist for liberal causes in the mind of many U.S. citizens. sacco and vanzetti, two Italian immigrants who spoke only broken...
Maxwell Anderson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...collaborated on an interesting failure concerned with the Sacco-Vanzetti case, Gods of the Lightning (1928), in which propaganda...Award with Winterset, a mature treatment of the Sacco-Vanzetti materials with a daring use of verse; he won this...
Upton Sinclair
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...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...
Upton Beale Sinclair Jr
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...1927) dealt with dishonesty in Warren G. Harding's administration. Boston (1928), a novel about the Sacco-Vanzetti case, unearthed much new material and demonstrated the constructive research that always lay beneath Sinclair's protest...
Anderson, (James) Maxwell
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...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...

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Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History SACCO-VANZETTI CASE SACCO-VANZETTI CASE. Nicola Sacco, a skilled shoeworker born in 1891, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish peddler born in 1888, were arrested on 5 May 1920, for a payroll holdup and murder in South Braintree, Massachusetts...
Sacco–Vanzetti Case
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Sacco–Vanzetti Case (USA) In 1921, Nicolà Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists , were found guilty of the murder of the paymaster and a guard of a shoe factory in Massachusetts, and sentenced...
Bartolomeo Vanzetti's Last Statement (21 August 1927)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI'S LAST STATEMENT...1927) Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888 – 1927) and Nicola Sacco (1881 –...generally consider the case a miscarriage of...other things. Though Sacco and Vanzetti eventually received...
International Labor Defense
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...campaign to keep Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti from receiving the death penalty. Sacco and Vanzetti, who were anarchists, were convicted...But its involvement in the Scottsboro case, more than any other protest, garnered...
American Civil Liberties Union
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...services involving test cases. Among those heeding...participated in several cases that became celebrated...These included the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, in which two Italian...and the Scottsboro Case, in which eight indigent...association with the cases — particularly...
Shahn, Ben
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ...series of pictures (1931–2) on the Sacco and Vanzetti case (these two Italian immigrants had been executed...condemned for their anarchist political views). The Sacco and Vanzetti paintings are in a deliberately awkward, caricature...
Nation, The
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...trial for the convicted anarchist-murderers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Villard opposed U.S. adventurism in Haiti and...Robert Oppenheimer and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg cases, and the beginnings of U.S. involvement in Vietnam...

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Sacco, Vanzetti, and labor
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/1/1997; 700+ words ; ...equally clear from Frankfurter's analysis of the case that Sacco and Vanzetti were tried for being anarchists. Frankfurter notes: "The Commonwealth claimed that Sacco and Vanzetti's alleged anxiety on the evening of their arrest...
The Lessons of Sacco and Vanzetti
Magazine article from: In These Times; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...I talk about the Sacco and Vanzetti case as often as I can...judiciary handled this case. Historian Nunzio Pernicone notes that Sacco and Vanzetti's plight brings...witnesses favorable to Sacco and Vanzetti's case. Meanwhile, a bullet...
Sacco and Vanzetti and the Worcester connections.(INSIGHT)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA); 10/21/2007; 700+ words ; ...judge at the Sacco and Vanzetti case 10 years before...aspects to the case. William G...after Mr. Sacco angrily broke...and that Mr. Vanzetti especially...the famous case was Robert...referred to Sacco and Vanzetti as Bolsheviks...
Sacco-Vanzetti anniversary raises fresh questions about U.S. executions, treatment of immigrants
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 8/22/2002; ; 654 words ; ...the bodies of Sacco and Vanzetti were kept. I...executions, the case raises questions...director for the Sacco-Vanzetti Project, which...the other day? Sacco and Vanzetti spent seven years...supporters made their case an international...
Sacco and Vanzetti: the case resolved.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 8/2/1986; ; 700+ words ; SACCO AND VANZETTI: The Case Resolved. Consider...that it explained Sacco and Vanzetti's lies at their...four years of the case, had expressed...revisionists. In this case it does more damage...reputation of Sacco or Vanzetti. The justification...
Trying again to interpret Sacco-Vanzetti
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/16/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...A. Lawrence Lowell dealing with the infamous Sacco-Vanzetti case were opened in 1977, 50 years after the two...finally settle some lingering questions. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a shoemaker and a fish peddler, Italian...
Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 6/3/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...abroad, the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, who were convicted...they all explained the case and its significance...their execution in 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti remained rich dramatic...Francis Russell's Sacco and Vanzetti: The Case...
Sacco and Vanzetti
Transcript from: NPR Weekend All Things Considered; 8/23/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Almost a year later, Sacco and Vanzetti, who were members of...process or civil rights. Sacco and Vanzetti were surprised to find...the most famous legal cases of the 20th century...sentenced in 1927, the case was an international...
Will Boston memorial right a `wrong'? Sacco-Vanzetti sculpture accepted.(Nation)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 8/21/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Dukakis declared Aug. 23 Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Day, declaring...and scholars, the case has been open to interpretation...important point is that cases like Sacco and Vanzetti rarely become resolved...last word. . . . A case that was conceived...
SACCO AND VANZETTI, 75 YEARS LATER LOCAL CONNECTIONS FADING, BUT TRIAL STILL DRAWS SCRUTINY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/3/2002; ; 700+ words ; The Sacco and Vanzetti case, which played...capitalists. The case sparked political...decision to execute Sacco and Vanzetti, after seven years...According to the Sacco-Vanzetti Project, which...conference, the case "left an indelible...