Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born immigrants, workers, and anarchists, who
were tried and convicted in 1921 for the armed robbery and murder of two payroll guards. After 7 years of
legal appeals and international protest, the two men were finally executed on August 23, 1927 in Boston for
a crime that many felt they did not commit and by a judicial system that was patently biased and unjust.
The Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society, seeks to preserve the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti
and to honor their efforts in trying to radically change the society they lived in. We wish to bring out their
place in the history of radical Massachusetts, to help draw useful connections between the struggle of
Sacco and Vanzetti and similar struggles today, and to inform our community about their living legacy. We
stand against the death penalty, the persecution of political dissidents, as well as the persecution and
scapegoating of immigrants. We hope that by raising a monument to Sacco and Vanzetti in Boston’s North
End, a bronze bas-relief by the American sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, the same Borglum noted for his iconic
sculptures of four American presidents in the hills of South Dakota, we can keep these issues fresh in the
minds of our city, our state, and our nation.

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