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.
American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html.
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...
National or international item
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.
Cole, David. “Radical Aliens”. London Review of Books, Vol.
