Author: Emma Fantuzzo
Interviewer: Mary Besecky
Amidst the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare of the 1920’s, two Italian Anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti would be tried and convicted of armed robbery and murder. A case that sparked national and international outrage, the biases of the judge, prosecution and the jurors was markedly anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist throwing the fairness of this trial into question. Since the 1921 verdict sentencing the men to death by electrocution, this case has defined the deep prejudices which run in the U.S. criminal justice system.