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The Sacco-Vanzetti affair is the most famous and controversial case in American legal history. In our history, justice has not always resulted in fairness, but instead in the denial of the rights of ordinary citizens.  In the 1920's, a tumultuous decade of social unrest, numerous Americans were discriminated against for their political or religious beliefs and ethnicity.  It was a decade of intense nationalism, in which the rights of immigrants were violated in such events as the Red Scare and Palmer Raids. In May of 1920, the infamous trial and conviction of Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti began.  Since this time, there has been much controversy as to their guilt. Could they have truly received a just trial in such a social climate?  Did Sacco and Vanzetti's ethnicity and political beliefs affect their trial and convictions?  It is believed
by many that these factors, rather than justice, played the greater hand in the trial.  The dominating motives......

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