“Our nation has seen times like this before, especially during the Red Scare and Palmer Raids,” Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford wrote. As was the case during the anti-communist crackdowns of the ...

America's first Red Scare ... in many ways similar to the I.W.W. These raids, in which about 1,000 members were detained, were a prelude to the "Palmer" raids of January 1920 (named for Attorney ...

In 1919, US President Woodrow Wilson appointed Alexander Mitchell Palmer as his Attorney General. Palmer claimed that Communist agents were trying to overthrow the American government and he ...

America's first Red Scare ... in many ways similar to the I.W.W. These raids, in which about 1,000 members were detained, were a prelude to the "Palmer" raids of January 1920 (named for Attorney ...