1919–1920
State repressionBook sources
The Palmer raids target immigrant radicals
United States
Federal authorities and local police arrested suspected radicals in mass raids during the Red Scare. Immigrants faced detention and deportation as political radicalism was linked to foreignness.
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Context / qualification
Actual bombings formed part of the context but did not establish the guilt of people swept into the raids. The FBI’s later account acknowledges serious failures and criticism over constitutional rights; it is an institutional retrospective.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 14, pp. 375–376; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- Federal Bureau of Investigation: Palmer Raids ↗