THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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They were communists
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They were Italian immigrants and anarchists
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Sacco owned a gun similar to the murder weapon
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they were members of the KKK
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Detailed explanation-1: -Many people viewed Sacco and Vanzetti with suspicion because they were what? Italian immigrants and anarchists. In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan added to its membership by doing what? Hiring public relation people to promote the Klan.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although Sacco and Vanzetti were never implicated in acts of violence, they were Italian immigrants and avowed anarchists. Their trials for armed robbery and murder occurred in this atmosphere of social tension and turmoil.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Sacco and Vanzetti case suggests how easily justice is perverted by the perception of immigrants as “enemies.” Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was only one luminary arrested in Boston protests in the summer of 1927. Appeals exhausted, Judge Thayer finally imposed the mandatory sentence of death in the spring of 1927.
Detailed explanation-4: -Their trial aroused intense controversy because it was widely believed that the evidence against the men was flimsy, and that they were being prosecuted for their immigrant background and their radical political beliefs.