Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian-Americans convicted and executed for robbery and murder despite worldwide demonstrations in support of their innocence. What contributed to anti-immigrant feelings in America in the 1920's? (CONSIDER THE QUOTE BELOW) *
"If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident. Our words - our lives - our pains--nothing! The taking of our lives-- lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler-all! That last moment belongs to us--that agony is our triumph."- Bartolomeo Vanzetti, 1927