Luigi Galleani was an Italian insurrectionary anarchist and communist best known for his advocacy of "propaganda of the deed", a strategy of political assassinations and violent attacks.
1919 police photograph of Galleani
Pietro Gori, one of Galleani's close collaborators in the Italian anarchist movement
Socialist politician Francesco Saverio Merlino, whose critique of anarchism provoked Galleani to write his book The End of Anarchism?
The Wall Street bombing was an act of terrorism on Wall Street at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight later died of wounds that they sus
Luigi Galleani
…Vanzetti, who were executed despite the lack of evidence against them. In reprisal, the Galleanist Mario Buda was alleged to have carried out the Wall Street bombing of 1920, which killed 33 people. During the 1930s, the Romanian American anarchist Marcus Graham attempted to revive the Galleanist movement with the…
The aftermath of the explosion. Federal Hall National Memorial is at the right.
Cover of The New York Times reporting on the Wall Street bombing.
Captioned "Dead in front of [J.P.] Morgan's [bank]", taken on the day of the bombing
Remnants of the damage from the 1920 bombing are still visible on 23 Wall Street.