“This is a story that talks about the injustice of prejudices in a society based on the social position that you occupy.”- Unknown Author  

Nicola Sacco- Sacco was born in Torremaggiore, Foggia, Italy on April 22, 1891 and emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen. In the United States he became a shoe worker and settled in Milford, Massachusetts. He soon started working for a local shoe company, got married, and had a son. Later, he would also have a daughter.

Bartolomeo Vanzetti- Vanzetti was born in Villafalletto, Cuneo, Italy on June 11, 1888. He emigrated to the United States at age twenty. Vanzetti was a wanderer and moved from job to job and place to place. Vanzetti eventually became a fish peddler in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He also tried very hard to learn the English language and shortly afterward learned how to read. When he mastered these skills, he spent much of his time reading books about anarchy (a state of society without government or law).  

        Both emigrated to the United States in 1908 but didn't meet each other until 1917. They both were anarchists and followers of Luigi Galleani, a major 20 century anarchist also born in Italy and also an immigrant to the United States. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed on August 23, 1927 because people believed that they were responsible for the 1920 armed robbery and murder of Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli, the guard and the pay master of the shoe company that Sacco worked at in Braintree, Massachusetts. The police chief who apprehended Sacco and Vanzetti was Michael Stewart. He believed that he had found the perfect suspects: poor Italian immigrants, who came to pick up a broken gun. Sacco's gun was broken in the same spot and sent to the same repairman as the 32. Colt automatic that was used for the Bridgewater hold up. Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty of first degree murder and were sentenced to death. People soon started to suspect that Sacco and Vanzetti may not have had a fair trial, whether they were guilty or not. Many years after, people were still trying to clear the names of Sacco and Vanzetti for a crime they might not have committed. The names, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were cleared, after decades of waiting, by former Massachusetts Govenor Mike Dukakis.