Apr 15 2010

Subversive Historian – 04/15/10

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Eric Drooker Sacco and Vanzetti

Back in the day on April 15th 1920, Federick Parmenter and Alesandro Berardelli were murdered in South Braintree, Massachusetts. The crime committed ninety years ago against the paymaster and his security guard would ultimately result in the arrest of two anarchist Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Their subsequent trial in 1921 was one of the most significant political events of the time. Many leading intellectuals, writers and artists such Dorothy Parker, H.G. Wells, and Upton Sinclair mobilized to try and obtain a retrial for the ultimately convicted pair citing their beliefs that Sacco and Vanzetti were targeted for their anarchist activities and Italian ethnicity. Nevertheless, the two men were eventually executed on August 23rd, 1927.

The Sacco and Vanzetti case inspired Sinclair to pen the related novel entitled “Boston.” The introduction to the reissue of the book was authored by the late people’s historian Howard Zinn.

For Uprising, this is your truth professa’ saying it’s no mystery why they conceal our people’s history

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  1. # laurenon 19 Apr 2010 at 9:05 pm

    Thank you for this piece of history and shout out to Sonali and the whole gang at uprising from lauren coodley.

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