Edmund Wilson believed that the case “revealed the whole anatomy of American life with all its classes, profession, and points of new and all their relations, and it raised almost every fundamental questions of our policy and social system.” What he meant was that there was an adverse bias from the authorities. Their arrest came at a time of tumultuous unrest in America. Although Sacco and Vanzetti had many strong alibis and witnesses, the fact that they all were Italian and couldn’t speak English well didn’t convince the American justice system. Prejudice was extremely apparent following World War I and anti-immigrant opinions were at a high. This period was engulfed with hatred against immigrants who supported communist and socialist. The