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Worse than the Devil: Anarchists, Clarence Darrow, and Justice in a Time of Terror

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In 1917 a bomb exploded in a Milwaukee police station, killing nine officers and a civilian. Days later, a tribulation started for eleven Italian immigrants who had already been in jail for months for an unrelated insurrection. The threat of the bombing, for which nobody had been arrested, haunted the proceedings. Against the backdrop of World War I and amid a prevailing hatred and fear of radical immigrants and anarchists, the Italians had an unfair trial. Famed attorney Clarence Darrow led an appeal that gained freedom for among the convicted, but his own methods were deeply suspect. All of the case left a depressing, regardless that in large part forgotten, stain on American justice.

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