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  2. Sacco and Vanzetti - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti - Wikipedia

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    Vanguard Press, in a different edition, reprinted the letters in 1930 on the third anniversary of Sacco and Vanzetti's deaths. The New York Herald Tribune book editor considered the letters "great literature among the most moving letters ever written" to be remembered even after fiction of the era fades.

  4. Depiction of Italian immigrants in the media during Prohibition

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    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]

  5. Fred Moore (attorney) - Wikipedia

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    The uncompromising anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, Moore realized, had the potential to spark an international cause célèbre. While preparing his courtroom case, Moore began alerting labor and socialist organizations in America and Europe, thus setting the stage for the worldwide attention the two men would later draw.

  6. Giuliano Montaldo, Italian Director of ‘Sacco and Vanzetti ...

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    Giuliano Montaldo, the prolific Italian director, actor and film industry executive, whose works comprise powerful political drama “Sacco and Vanzetti” about the Massachusetts trial and ...

  7. Sacco-Vanzetti Story - Wikipedia

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    "Sacco-Vanzetti Story" is a two-part American television play that was broadcast on June 3, 1960, and June 10, 1960, as part of the NBC Sunday Showcase series. The play tells the story of the arrest, trial, conviction, and execution of Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti in the famed criminal case of the 1920s.

  8. International Labor Defense - Wikipedia

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    The ILD defended Sacco and Vanzetti, was active in the anti-lynching, movements for civil rights, and prominently participated in the defense and legal appeals in the cause célèbre of the Scottsboro Boys in the early 1930s. Its work contributed to the appeal of the Communist Party among African Americans in the South.

  9. Herbert B. Ehrmann - Wikipedia

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    After the trial of Italian immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, Ehrmann wrote two books about the case: The Untried Case and The Case That Will Not Die—Commonwealth vs. Sacco and Vanzetti - the book [2] for which in 1969 he won the Edgar Award for the best fact crime book of the year. [4] [8] In addition, Ehrmann wrote articles.