Sacco and Vanzetti Info by Alex Sirkin, revised 5/3/98

Related historical timeline created with Timeliner (Nobles grad, Tom Snyder)

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian Immigrants and radical anarchists. Sacco worked as a shoe maker, and Vanzetti worked as a fish pedler. In May of 1920 in Massachusetts they were both arrested and charged for killing and robbing the shoe paymaster of whom they worked for. The key witness in the trial against Sacco and Vanzetti claimed that the people leaving the scene of the murder "looked Italian." This was the only "true" piece of evidence used in the trial. In 1927 they were sentenced to death. Throughout the world their execution caused massive groups of demonstraters to protest against their sentence. Sacco and Vanzetti's exection represents the "red scare" paranoia that the entire United States was feeling during the 1920's.
--Alex Sirkin, student at Noble and Greenough Class of 2000
--history teacher: Tim Kelley
--sources: The Readers Companion To American History, and the sites listed below

graphics of Sacco and Vanzetti

related web sites for Sacco and Vanzetti

  1. Click Here for a song about Sacco and Vanzetti
  2. full description of Sacco and Vanzetti before and after the trial
  3. I recommend this site for papers, lots of facts dates and specifics!