Tainted Justice: The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti Beneath the surface of economic prosperity and social liberation, America in the 1920's was a place of great fear, distrust, and prejudice. The Russian Revolution of 1917 had heightened anxieties about global Socialist movements, and any political ideology which strayed from good old-fashioned white-Protestant patriotism was met with suspicion and often hostility. This "Red Scare" resulted in violations of the civil rights of many immigrants and other individuals …
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