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1927
Sacco & Vanzetti
2 Broadsides and 1 newsletter related to the Sacco Vanzetti case [decimalized]
Materials relating to the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in 1927.
GLC05712
circa July 1927
Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee
Justice the issue! Shall Sacco and Vanzetti be judicially murdered?
This document is a printed broadside put out by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee which attacks the exclusive judgment of Judge Webster Thayer and says in part: "The issue is not only for Massachusetts. It is for America. The world will judge...
GLC05712.01
circa August 1927
Unknown
[Broadside against the Sacco-Vanzetti execution]
This document is a printed broadside that quotes a columnist from the New York World and reads, "What more can these immigrants from Italy expect? it is not every prisoner who has a President of Harvard University throw on the switch for him." Sacco...
GLC05712.02
September 1927
The official bulletin of the Sacco-Vanzetti defense committee [Vol. I, no. 15 (September 1927)]
Newspaper or newsletter issued after the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The first page has a printed statement denouncing the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti and comparing the case to the Salem witchcraft trials. The rest of the...
GLC05712.03
1919
Goldman, Emma (1869-1940)
Deportation, its meaning and menace; last message to the people of America.
Written by Berkman and Emma Goldman. After the author statement, the title continues: "Ellis Island, New York, U.S.A., December 1919." Colophon reads: "Ten cents a copy. Order from M. E. Fitzgerald, 857 Broadway, New York City."
GLC06222
13 September 1921
The New York Herald
The New York Herald, Tuesday, September 13, 1921.
This document is a newspaper that was found stuffed in the frame of 05860.01 when that document was being removed from the mount and frame. It is a newspaper from a 1921 release of The New York Herald. Topics covered include international economic...
GLC05860.02
14 January 1914
Stevens, Frederick Clement (1861-1923)
to A.G. Johnson
Replies to Johnson's telegram of January 13, 1914 calling for Stevens to oppose the literacy test as part of the Burnett immigration bill. Agrees with Johnson that the bill should not pass and, "...if the provisions of the bill had been carried out...
GLC09518.01
15 January 1914
Manahan, James (1866-1932)
Manahan's reply to Johnson's telegram that he oppose the literacy test of the Burnett immigration bill. Agrees that the test unfairly discriminates against immigrants. "You know as well as I do that if the rabid restrictionists of our country had had...
GLC09518.02
16 January 1914
Smith, George Ross (1864-1952)
In reply to Johnson's telegram, Smith details his opposition to the Burnett Bill especially the measure for illiteracy testing. "I believe in keeping out the crazed, the diseased, the defective… but I do not believe in excluding on the mere ground of...
GLC09518.03
26 January 1915
Wilson, William Bauchop (1862-1934)
A response from Secretary of Labor William Bauchop Wilson to A.G. Johnson's letter to President Woodrow Wilson regarding the latter's opposition to the Butler Immigration Bill. States the President will consider Johnson's comments.
GLC09518.04
1914-1915
Various
letters to A.G. Johnson [Decimalized .01-.04]
Four letters to letters to A.G. Johnson regarding the Burnett immigration bill.
GLC09518
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