Sacco and Vanzetti are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought to disrupt it. In the Church, their memory has found a temporary resting place.
By Olivia G. Pasquerella
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti have been arrested in time on the third floor of the Community Church of Boston.
They are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought to disrupt it. In the Church, their memory has found a temporary resting place.
The Community Church of Boston, originally, was not bound by a building. In its salad days, it was a roving congregation that filled grand concert halls with eager Boston reformers. These meetings sparked an illustrious and ongoing speaker series, featuring the likes of W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Angela Davis.
