Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Alice Brandeis was not one to shy away from a controversial cause: She assisted in the campaign on behalf of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and embraced the third-party presidential campaign of Robert La Follette (1924).

Alice Goldmark Brandeis. 2009

The same year, she became emotionally involved in the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchists and labor agitators convicted of murder.

Edna St. Vincent Millay greenintegerblog 2008

Half a century before the Black Panthers, Italian immigrant anarchist Nicola Sacco was also dubiously accused of murder, and after a terribly biased trial, he and his comrade Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston.

Peter Miller: A Day of Rebellion 2008

The execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti sent shock waves throughout the world, and millions watched in horror as their seven-year legal nightmare came to a close.

Peter Miller: Lessons of Sacco and Vanzetti 2008

Inside there was a letter postmarked September 12, 1929, in which Upton Sinclair confessed knowing that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were guilty.

The Elegant Variation: TEV 2006

Inside there was a letter postmarked September 12, 1929, in which Upton Sinclair confessed knowing that Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were guilty.

MORE SINCLAIR FOR YOU TEV 2006

(SAK-oh; van-ZET-ee) Two anarchists (see anarchism), Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, who were convicted of a robbery and two murders in Massachusetts in the early 1920s and sentenced to death.

Sacco and Vanzetti 2002

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed for allegedly killing a factory paymaster during a robbery in Braintree, Massachusetts.

1927 2001

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, after exhaustive legal enquiry, formally proclaimed on August 23, 1977, that there were "substantial, indeed compelling grounds" that they had not had a fair trial, and removed any "stigma and disgrace" from the names of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

The Sacco-Vanzetti Case Jackson, Brain 1982

(Bartolomeo Vanzetti, just before he was sentenced to death on April 10, 1927.)

Labor's Martyrs Vito Marcantonio 1928