Records
Rosenberg v. United States, 346 U.S. 273 (1953)
Supreme Court vacating Douglas's stay of execution for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
Rosenberg v. United States, 346 U.S. 322 (1953)
Final Rosenberg denial of stay / rehearing — the executions were carried out the same day.
Schaefer v. United States, 251 U.S. 466 (1920)
Supreme Court affirming Espionage Act convictions of the editors of the Philadelphia Tageblatt German-language paper.
Stilson v. United States, 250 U.S. 583 (1919)
Supreme Court affirming Espionage Act conviction of socialist anti-draft organizer David Stilson.
The Criminal Anarchy Law and on Suppressing the Advocacy of Crime
Legal commentary on New York's 1902 Criminal Anarchy Act passed after Czolgosz's execution — later used against Gitlow and Larkin.
The Haywood Affair (Loebl, 1921)
Loebl's 1921 essay on Big Bill Haywood's flight to Soviet Russia while on bail in the federal IWW prosecutions.
The Life, Trial, and Execution of Captain John Brown
Contemporaneous 1859 compilation of trial transcript, correspondence, and execution of John Brown after the Harpers Ferry raid.
The New Unionism
Survey of revolutionary syndicalism and the IWW published the year of the federal Chicago indictments.
The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It
Daniel R. Lee's eyewitness 50th-anniversary recollection of the raid.
The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906–1926)
The 1955 autobiography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn covering her early life and her organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World from the Spokane free-speech fights of 1909 through the Lawrence and Paterson textile strikes, the Joe Hill defense, the Tom Mooney case, the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign, the WWI Espionage Act prisoner defense, and the founding of...
Throttled! The Detection of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters
NYPD memoir of WWI-era anarchist and 'preparedness' bombing investigations including the Lexington Avenue and Preparedness Day cases.
War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence: Involving the Rights of Free Speech, Free Press and Peaceful Assemblage (April 1, 1917 – March 1, 1919)
A compilation published by the National Civil Liberties Bureau (the direct predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union, founded 1920) indexing cases of prosecution and mob violence directed against the rights of free speech, free press, and peaceful assembly in the United States from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919 — the World War I and immediate post-w...
Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)
Supreme Court affirming Anita Whitney's California criminal-syndicalism conviction for Communist Labor Party organizing; Brandeis concurrence.
Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957)
Supreme Court narrowing the Smith Act and reversing convictions of California 'second-string' CP leaders.
Yates v. United States, 355 U.S. 66 (1957)
Companion Yates ruling on the contempt convictions.