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Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian immigrants, clearly understood the true force of societys bias in the 1920’s. ... The Sacco and Vanzetti case was less a display of facts and evidence as it was a display of culture and as the product of prejudice and discrimination. The radical political beliefs and Italian ethnicity of Sacco and Vanzetti affected the process of their trial and its resulting conviction.
Previously established anxiety towards immigrants staged the atmosphere for the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti. ... A month later, on May 5, Nicola Sacco and Bartolemeo Vanzetti were arrested on a streetcar in nearby Brockton, Massachusetts. ... A little over a month later, July 14, the jury found Sacco and Vanzetti guilty of murder. ... The prosecution used over seventy witnesses in their case against Sacco and Vanzetti. Of the witnesses, many had never even seen or spoken to either Sacco or Vanzetti. One witness named Harry Dolbeare claimed that one of the shooters “looked like a foreigner” but after visiting Vanzetti in his cell was able to describe the shooter as having a “heavy dark mustache, with vivid green eyes, and a slim muscled build” (Jaeger 6).
Approximate Word count = 842
Approximate Pages = 3.4
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