American National Biography.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Standard Name: Vanzetti, Bartolomeo
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Edna St Vincent Millay | ESVM
campaigned to establish the innocence of Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
, who were executed for alleged terrorist killings on 23 August 1927. With other writers she stood in a picket line outside the... |
| Publishing | Edna St Vincent Millay | The day before Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
were executed for alleged political murder or terrorism, the New York Times carried ESVM
's poem about them, Justice Denied in Massachusetts. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | E. Arnot Robertson | The background to this dense, richly-packed book includes a number of defining political events: the career of Toussaint L'Ouverture
(discovered by Douglas through studying Wordsworth
at school), the Irish Civil War; the trial of Sacco |
Timeline
23 August 1927
Two Italian immigrants to the USA, Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
, were executed amid international furore for shooting dead a paymaster and a security guard outside a factory at South Braintree.