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The Palmer Raids were a series of raids conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.
Palmer, twice targeted by anarchist bombs, organized the nationwide series of police actions known as the Palmer raids in November 1919 and January 1920. Under suspicion of violating the Espionage Act , the Sedition Act and/or the Immigration Act of 1918 , [ 13 ] approximately 10,000 people were arrested, of whom 3,500 were held in detention ...
The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the Red Scare, the term given to fear of and reaction against communist radicals in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I. Strikes garnered national attention, race riots occurred in over 30 US cities, and two sets of bombings took place in April and June 1919, including ...
Attorney General Palmer from November 1919 to January 1920 launched the Palmer Raids to suppress radical organizations. Over 10,000 people were arrested and 556 aliens were deported, including Emma Goldman. [271] Palmer's activities met resistance from the courts and some senior administration officials. No one told Wilson what Palmer was doing.
This was known as the first Red Scare or the "Palmer Raids". [83] Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, a Wilsonian Democrat, had a bomb explode outside his house. He set out to stop the "Communist conspiracy" that he believed was operating inside the United States.
The size of Arnold Palmer’s schlong,” podcast host Dan Pfeiffer wrote on X. “But don’t call them weird,” author Jennifer Taub posted , alluding to Kamala Harris ’s moniker for the ...
On October 17, 1919, just a year after the Immigration Act of 1918 had expanded the definition of aliens that could be deported, the U.S. Senate demanded Palmer explain his failure to move against radicals. [93] Palmer launched his campaign against radicalism with two sets of police actions known as the Palmer Raids in November 1919 and January ...
AP Photo/file. It has been 60 years since Malcolm X was assassinated on Feb. 21, 1965 in New York City, and his family is calling for the documents in the case to be declassified.