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...word, but for harboring or expressing opinions antagonistic to an established order of government. There is no question that the U.S. has a long and frequently dishonorable history of persecuting its citizens who hold unpopular opinions. The record reaches back past the Joseph McCarthy era to Sacco and Vanzetti, the Palmer raids, the Wobblies, and the Haymarket trial of 1887. There is also the ambiguous case of the Utah Mormons, who were persecuted in the late 19th century for the "crime" of practicing polygamy, then a canon of their faith. In a certain sense, those Latter-day Saints arrested...
...Scott Fitzgerald chronicled in This Side of Paradise, a first novel which caused a sensation during '21's junior year. They graduated into a world of raccoon coats and Warren Harding, crazy prosperity followed by a dizzying bust. During the final weeks of their spring reading period, Sacco and Vanzetti endured their first trial. In 1921, Lenin announced his New Economic Policy, Ezra Pound's first four cantos were published, and Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie hit the boards. Radio was catching...
...know, this may be the biggest trial since Sacco-Vanzetti," one Boston newspaper editor confided...
What makes the case of the Chicago Seven special is the breakdown of discipline in a court of law, a problem unparalleled even in celebrated trials of this century that carried strong political overtones-Sacco and Vanzetti, Alger Hiss, the eleven Communist leaders in the 1949 Dennis case. Undoubtedly a greater share of the blame for the breakdown rests on the defendants than on the judge. Still, Boston Attorney Herbert Ehrmann, who defended Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the 1920s, says of the Chicago trials: "The conduct of the judge and the actions of the defendants were all disgraceful...
Like his photography, Ben Shahn's paintings, particularly the series on Sacco and Vanzetti, reveal his concern with social injustice. He stressed the social function of his art rather than its aesthetic value. Photography he regarded purely as a means of documentation. He shot prisons, bales of hay, store fronts and the tasteless side shows at the circus. Never acknowledging their artistic possibilities, he used his photographs as material for his painting. Photographs helped him recall details about the way people looked...