Biography on sacco and vanzetti political cartoon

  • Mostly in August, around the time of the (legal) murder of Sacco and Vanzetti.
  • These cartoons were drawn from day to day during the tense period immediately preceding the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti.
  • Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and.

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    Sacco and Vanzetti

    Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts

    For other uses, see Sacco and Vanzetti (disambiguation).

    Nicola Sacco (pronounced[niˈkɔːlaˈsakko]; April 22, 1891 – August 23, 1927) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (pronounced[bartoloˈmɛːovanˈtsetti,-ˈdzet-]; June 11, 1888 – August 23, 1927) were Italian immigrants and anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter, a guard and a paymaster, during the April 15, 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States. Seven years later, they were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison.

    After a few hours' deliberation on July 14, 1921, the jury convicted Sacco and Vanzetti of first-degree murder and they were sentenced to death by the trial judge. Anti-Italianism, anti-immigrant, and anti-anarchist bias were suspected as having heavily influenced the verdict. A serie

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    The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
    in Cartoons from the Daily Worker

    Thanks to Dr. Marty Goodman of the The Riazanov Project

    All 14 cartoons (the 16 pages of the pamphlet also include the front cover, which is graphic text only, and a page of introduction) in this 9 x 12 inch pamphlet / journal were drawn by Fred Ellis in 1927. Mostly in August, around the time of the (legal) murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. One cartoon is from July.

    In Jospeh Freeman's introductory text in this pamphlet, it is noted that some of the cartoons appeared not only in the Daily Worker, but also in Labor Defender, Labor Herald, The Liberator, and The New Majority.

    All cartoons listed below are from 1927.


    The complete pamphlet in one PDF file
    [note that there IS NO table of contents in the original pamphlet]

    List of cartoons

    1. Front cover (graphic text)

    2. Is It Freedom, July 20

    3. Introduction by Joseph Freeman (PDF document)

    4. The Verdict, August 10

    5. [Path of dollars to death ce