The case of Sacco and Vanzetti was a case that involved two Italians that were convicted of murder in 1921. During this time period a variety of immigrants began to come to the United States to find a different and better life than the one they had in their home country. In 1921 Congress broke the Emergency Quota Act, restricted European immigrants from coming to the United States, bur in 1924 that act was replace by the Immigration Act of 1924.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti was born in Villaffalletto, a town in Italy, on the 11th of June 1888. He came to the United States when he was 20 years old, and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and there, in the beginning he worked in an industrial factory later, he worked as a fish peddler. Vanzetti didn’t like the way the immigrants were treated in America so he became involved in “left-wing politics” (“Spartacus Educational”). Vanzetti then started attending anarchist meetings, and that’s how he met Nicola Sacco. Nicola Sacco was born in Torremaggiore, another town in Italy, on the 22nd of April of 1891. Sacco came to the United States three years younger than when Vanzetti came (at 17 years old) to America. Sacco lived in Stoughton, Massechussetts and later on got married and started a family. Sacco – as well as Vanzetti – got involved in left-wing politics and
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attended the same anarchist meetings as Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Foreign-born witnesses as to where Sacco & Vanzetti were at the time of the robbery and what they were doing were ignored and associated evidence was suppressed.
“This case is seen as one of the earliest examples of using widespread protests and mass movements to try to win the release of convicted persons. The Sacco-Vanzetti case also exposed the inadequacies of both the legal and law enforcement system in investigating and prosecuting members and alleged members of secret societies and terrorist groups, and contributed to calls for the organization of national data collection and counterintelligence services.” ("/why Was the Sacco and Vanzetti Important to
Society?") Having those specific people – historians, lawyers, family members – talk about Sacco and Vanzetti was a good way to have the viewers and other people watching the film see other perspectives of them. There’s the Italian-speaking woman, Fernanda Sacco, Nicola’s niece, talking about how “he left [and] never returned” to Italy. (5:11, (A.H.F) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti) The film was very descriptive and enriched about Sacco and Vanzetti’s important detail and facts. It was also biased about the Sacco-Vanzetti case. I believe that the Sacco-Vanzetti trial was not a fair trial because the reason was mainly because they were immigrants coming into the United States for a new and better life. “These people got no trial, these people got no hearing. They were simply picked up. 500 people were chained together and marched through the streets of Boston.” (Howard Zinn, Historian) having that said it is inferred that not only they are not respected, but also they don’t have a say or an option for their sake. Sacco and Vanzetti both fled to Mexico to avoid being drafted for the World War. “An Italian accused of murder in Massachusetts stands about as much chance of getting a fair trial as a black man accused of rape in the South.” (35:58, (A.H.F) Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti)
Why was the case brought? Give a detailed summary of the factors that led to the case (250 words).
Since 1790, the United States started to grant limited naturalization to immigrants of free white persons through the Naturalization Act of 1790 and established racial qualification to national citizenships. Immigrants, regardless of who they were, need to prove that they were of white race. This lead to the moment when defining who was white was through either scientific method or common knowledge. Into the early 19th and late 20th century, there were numerous of terms to include whiteness and non-racial qualification for immigration to the United States. As immigrants try to show how they were white, there were court cases, Takao Ozawa v. United States, 260 U.S. 178 (1922) and United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923), which regarded as one of the landmark cases of the United States Supreme Court especially regarding naturalization of immigrants.
Nicola Sacco and Barolmeo Vanzetti arrived in America as Italian immigrants in 1908. Sacco was seventeen working at a shoe...
In the article “The Interview” and the documentary “The Central Park Five” both showed injustice and how corrupted the judicial system is in terms of the human experience. Having justice is having equality for all and being fair about it, but in the “The Interview” and “The Central Park Five” it showed the opposite of what having justice is. They proved that the judicial system can be unfair and that innocent people can be arrested for crimes they did not commit even if there are evidence proving their innocence.
Thesis Statement: The Sacco and Vanzetti case was an unfair trial leading to the two men to be executed.
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