May 7th, 2013
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A Byte Out of History - The Palmer Raids
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Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Mollie Steimer were among the large number of activist Jews arrested and eventually deported thanks to the Palmer Raids, launched in November 1919 (the second anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution) by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and his assistant, J. Edgar Hoover. Between November and January, more than ten thousand suspected anarchists and communists would be taken into custody and held without trial; a few hundred would be deported, including many Russian Jews. (For Goldman, Berkman, and Steimer, the USSR was a huge disappointment, and all three were deported again, to Germany.) Among the places targeted by Palmer was the Brownsville Labor Lyceum in Brooklyn, where more than a thousand folks, mostly Jews, attended the Brownsville Socialist Sunday School on a weekly basis and helped sustain a cooperative bakery, a bank, a consumer league, and tenant organizations, according to historian Wendell Pritchett.
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http://jewishcurrents.org/november-7...mer-raids-3101
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A Byte Out of History
The Palmer Raids
The bomb hit home, both literally and figuratively.
On June 2, 1919, a militant anarchist named Carlo Valdinoci blew up the front of newly appointed Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s home in Washington, D.C.—and himself up in the process when the bomb exploded too early. A young Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who lived across the street, were also shaken by the blast.
The bombing was just one in a series of coordinated attacks that day on judges, politicians, law enforcement officials, and others in eight cities nationwide. About a month earlier, radicals had also mailed bombs to the mayor of Seattle and a U.S. Senator, blowing the hands off the senator’s domestic worker. The next day, a postal worker in New York City intercepted 16 more packages addressed to political and business leaders, including John D. Rockefeller.
It was already a time of high anxiety in America—driven by a deadly wave of the pandemic flu, the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and ensuing over-hyped “Red Scare,” and sometimes violent labor strikes across the country.
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http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2007.../palmer_122807
http://kelitad.hubpages.com/hub/Terr...e-Palmer-Raids
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