The place where this family comes, the plain of the “saluzzese” and the
country of Villafalletto, has one they particular importance one in the
within of this vicissitude in how much is original just of this
agricultural center Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Born the 11th june 1888 in the small city of Villafalletto, son of an
agriculturist, emigrated in the United States to the age of 20 years.
Vanzetti was settled down in the Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Vanzetti, with to its companion
Nichola Sacco, was protagonists of whom one can be defined historical
vicissitude, symbol of the
epic immigration in the USA in the first years of 1900.
Theirs were a dragged judicial case from 1920 to 1927 that it had like
protagonists two immigrates Italian (Nichola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti), condemned a.morte the 15 you open them 1920 for the
homicide of two men during a holdup in a shoe factory. Their execution
provoked protests all over the world. The pure circumstanzial character
of the tests adduced against the two Italians (they were anarchical
activists) attracted on the short accusations of party-spirit dictated
from racial and political reasons.
The demand to reopen the case came systematically refused, also when an
other prisoner, death condemned, confessed to have taken part to the
holdup. In August 1977 the governor of the Massachusetts Michael Dukakis
only recognized in an official document the errors store clerks in the
process, riabilitando completely the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti. This
episode becomed the symbol of the social and human conditions of Italian
immigrates but not only of this historical period. |