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Introduction

The Defense of Sacco and Vanzetti

The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti

Artists Respond

The Controversy Continues

Ben Shahn and Sacco and Vanzetti at Syracuse University

The Creative Response to the Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti

Syracuse University Library – Special Collections Research Center

The Ben Shahn Mural at Syracuse University

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This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life can we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man, as now we do by accident. Our words, our lives, our pains—nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph!

From the speech delivered to Judge Webster Thayer by Bartolomeo Vanzetti