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Part II: The Roaring 20's, Division

=The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti=

Thesis: In the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti it exposed the racial injustice in our court system because it was a controversial case as it divided the citizens to a point where it was the immigrants siding with the defense, and Americans siding with the prosecution. The trial featured two Italian anarchist immigrants named Sacco and Vanzetti. They stood trial for the murders of two men during a 1920's bank robbery in Braintree Massachusetts. The two men had no prior criminal records, however authorities knew them as radical militants, this didn't help their chances in court. Vanzetti didn't help himself when he was caught carrying similar shotgun shells to that of the murders. The trial was considered controversial because the Judge (Webster Thayer) a couple weeks before the trial gave a speech to American citizens speaking out against anarchist threats to America, and supported the suppression of radicals. However they did get due process of law by receiving a second trial, except that second trial was with the same biased judge. After six years of going through the appeal process Sacco and Vanzetti were ultimately executed by the electric chair, on August 23, 1927. To this day historians still debate their innocence....



 //"Nicola Sacco (r) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1923.//  //Many legal observers believed then, as now,//   //that the men should have been granted a new//   //trial after their conviction in 1921."//