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Sacco and Vanzetti were briefly mentioned in season 4 episode 4 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, when Asher mentions to Abe "they had great lawyers too and must've been a great comfort to them as they sat in their electric chairs listening to their brains melt". Sacco and Vanzetti are mentioned in season 8, episode 15 of the TV series, The Practice.
"How bomb blasts a century ago launched the Red Scare and a raid against Paterson anarchists". northjersey.com Retrieved June 13, 2019 . Avrich, Paul (Prof.), Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background , Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (1991), ISBN 0-691-02604-1 .
The case of Sacco and Vanzetti is considered an example of anti-Italianism, including prejudice because of their anarchist political beliefs. The press reported extensively on the case, and reports were given of the anti-Italian bias of Judge Thayer. Later newspaper reports were almost entirely silent on the Medeiros confession. [5]
The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the First Red Scare, ... Paul, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background (Princeton University Press, 1991)
Following Galleani's deportation and the indictment of Sacco and Vanzetti for murder, more bombings occurred in the U.S. Followers of Galleani, especially Buda, were suspected in the Wall Street bombing of 1920, which killed 38 people and severely wounded 143.
Luigi Galleani was born on 12 August 1861, [1] into a middle-class family, [2] in the Piedmontese city of Vercelli.He first became interested in anarchism while studying law at the University of Turin, eventually renouncing his career in law in order to carry out anarchist propaganda against capitalism and the state. [3]
Hopeless Cases: The Hunt for the Red Scare Terrorist Bombers. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-3132-7. OCLC 60358652. Tejada, Susan (2012). In Search of Sacco and Vanzetti: Double Lives, Troubled Times, and the Massachusetts Murder Case That Shook the World. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 978-1-55553-730-2.
The first Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of far-left movements, including Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included the Russian 1917 October Revolution, German Revolution of 1918–1919, and anarchist bombings in the U.S.