THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Unlike Communists, Anarchists were not considered a threat by most Americans
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fearful of radicals and saw them as a threat to the American way of life
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The courts in the 1920s were immune to nativist influence.
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African Americans could not get a fair trial during this time.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists, believing that social justice would come only through the destruction of governments. In the early 1920s, mainstream America developed a fear of communism and radical politics that resulted in an anti-communist, anti-immigrant hysteria.
Detailed explanation-2: -Sacco and Vanzetti, in full Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, defendants in a controversial murder trial in Massachusetts, U.S. (1921–27), that resulted in their executions. The trial resulted from the murders in South Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920, of F.A.
Detailed explanation-3: -As anarchists, Sacco and Vanzetti had opposed the war. They had gone to Mexico in 1917 to avoid registering for the draft. When they came back to Massachusetts, they were caught up in the Red Scare. Many of their friends and fellow anarchists had already been arrested and were being deported.