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. The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with 6,000 people arrested across 36 cities. Though 556 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer’s efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U.S. Department of Labor, which had authority for deportations and objected to Palmer’s methods.
The Palmer Raids occurred in the larger context of the First Red Scare, a period of fear of and reaction against communists in the U.S. in the years immediately following World War I and the Russian Revolution. There were strikes that garnered national attention, and prompted race riots in more than 30 cities, as well as two sets of bombings in April and June 1919, including one bomb mailed to Palmer’s home.
Between November 1919 and January 2020, Palmer’s agents deported nearly 250 people, including notable anarchist Emma Goldman, and arrested nearly 10,000 people in seventy cities.
100 Years Ago, the First Red Scare Tried to Destroy the Left
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watched Steamboat Willie now that it’s public domain
it is a testament to the power of human imagination how much animal abuse they could cram into 7 minutes of early animation
I refuse to watch public domain movies. The thrill is gone now that it’s no longer pirated content. Deleting my Passion of Joan of Arc remux in disgust.
For an end of year project in grade 9 each class got a 50 year span or a decade to sorta do a museum for, they sectioned off the gym and made parents come in. I got stuck with 1850-1900 and had to play Louis Real and sit around in candle light, other groups drew the 90s and brought their n64s and played smash bros (it was the mid 2000s, the 90s weren’t historic at all yet). Anyway, the 1920s gang had steamboat willy on a loop and that was exactly the thoughts I had seeing it at age 15 for the first time.