Papers concerning the Sacco and Vanzetti case, 1921-1927.

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Papers concerning the Sacco and Vanzetti case, 1921-1927.

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Papers collected by Harvard University president A. Lawrence Lowell as amember of the 1927 advisory committee (the "Lowell Commission") for Massachusettsgovernor Alvan T. Fuller's clemency review of the sentences of Nicola Sacco andBartolomeo Vanzetti.

2 boxes (2 linear feet)

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Fuller, Alvan T. (Alvan Tufts), 1878-1958

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McAnarney, Jeremiah J.

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G. Mannoury

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Anthracite Sacco Vanzetti Committee of Forty Miners Local Union 75

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Henry Robbins.

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Lowell, A. Lawrence (Abbott Lawrence), 1856-1943

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Nicola Sacco (1891-1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927) were Italian immigrants who were tried and executed for robbery and murder of payroll guards Frederick Albert Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli. The case of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Sacco and Vanzetti quickly became one of America's most complicated and notorious political trials. They were found guilty on July 14, 1921, but the legal struggle to save them extended until 1927. By April 9, 1927, all appeals in the Massachu...

Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927

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