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The conviction of Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco for a payroll robbery in South Braintree Square that left two men dead, continues to be debated a century later. The subsequent investigation and trial remains controversial and the execution of the two men in 1927 was met with worldwide protests. Historian and author Christopher Daley will dis...

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On April 15, 1920, a double murder set off a sequence of events that led to the controversial, and later declared unjust, trial convictions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Their execution on August 23, 1927 is blamed on anti-Italian prejudice and fear of their anarchist political beliefs. The charges against Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Van...

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Wednesday, May 15, 2019, 5:30-8pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute - Queens College, CUNY - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York NY 10036. The Comitato Società Dante Alighieri NYC invites you to the symposium Between Acceptance and Prejudice: One Hundred Years of Italian E/i[m]migration. This symposium takes its title from the Ital...

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Saturday, May 11, 2019. 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT. Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. Sacco & Vanzetti. Storie d’immigrazione italiana negli Stati Uniti. 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Documentary screening / Immigration workshop / Oral history interviews / Photo exhibit / Bookstore pop-up. 5:30 PM Panel discussion f...

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Italiani in America, è una commedia musicale sull’emigrazione dei nostri connazionali provenienti soprattutto dal sud dell’Italia nei primi del ‘900. Fu un esodo colossale che vide oltre 14 milioni di italiani emigrare verso le Americhe. Questo è il tema portante dello spettacolo che andrà in scena domenica 27 gennaio 2019 alle ore 20.00 presso l’A...

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One of two silver medal winners in our playwriting contest, A Long Shadow, explores a time when Italians were the immigrants to be feared and suspected. Join us for this thought-provoking, historical drama that roused the world to an ever-present danger. The Italian American Theatre of Chicago Presents: A Long Shadow. A Staged Reading of the Play b...

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International Opera Theater’s 15th world premiere Italian opera: “Sacco e Vanzetti: gli uomini e chi li amava (“Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men and Those Who Loved Them”) will take place in Teatro Comunale “Accademia degli Avvaloranti”, Citta’ della Pieve, Italy on August, 24, 25, 26, 2018. Our opera has 8 roles for professional opera singers and 14 ro...

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Una strada di Napoli verrà intitolata a Nicola Sacco e Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Lo ha deciso e annunciato oggi la giunta del capoluogo campano presieduta dal sindaco Luigi De Magistris, che ha approvato la delibera e ha individuato la strada: si tratta di una via del quartiere di San Giovanni a Teduccio, che in precedenza era denominata ‘Traversa Colon...

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The Sisters of Saint Joseph held a memorial ceremony on the 90th anniversary of the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti at the Sinai Temple on Wednesday evening. Sacco and Vanzetti, Italian immigrants who were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the armed robbery of a South Braintree business in 1920, were executed...

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The story of Sacco and Vanzetti is one of the most important and famous stories regarding the Italian American experience. Even in Italy, where unfortunately usually what happened to our fellow Italians who went to America seems not to bother much, these two Italians are well known, even if probably not many know exactly for what. On August 23, 192...

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