Ouisie Shapiro
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1040L
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of how in the early 1920s, as a Red Scare gripped America, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were wrongly accused, tried, and executed for murder, making front-page headlines as they maintained their innocence to the very end.
In the early 1920s, a Red Scare gripped America. Many of those targeted were Italians, Eastern Europeans, and other immigrants. When an armed robbery resulting in the death of two...