Records
A Fragment of the Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman
Pamphlet documenting Goldman and Berkman's imprisonment at Jefferson City and Atlanta for anti-conscription organizing. Directly about two of the most famous U.S. political prisoners; both convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act and deported in 1919.
Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
Supreme Court affirming Espionage Act convictions of Russian-Jewish anarchists for anti-intervention leaflets; Holmes's 'marketplace of ideas' dissent.
Berkman v. United States, 250 U.S. 114 (1919)
Per curiam affirming Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman's Selective Service Act convictions.
Connection of Certain Department of Labor Employees with the Case of Thomas J. Mooney
Congressional report into Labor Department contacts with the Mooney defense after the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing conviction.
Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919)
Supreme Court opinion affirming Eugene Debs's Espionage Act conviction for the 1918 Canton, Ohio anti-war speech.
El Paso herald — 1919-11-12 (Centralia Massacre / Wesley Everest)
Front-page report on the Centralia Massacre
Evening star — 1919-12-22 (Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman (Soviet Ark deportation))
Coverage of the Buford 'Soviet Ark' deportation sailing
General Defense Committee: Release All Class War Prisoners (Broadside)
IWW broadside demanding release of all 'class war prisoners' jailed under wartime Espionage and state criminal-syndicalism statutes; signed by William D. Haywood.
General Defense Committee: Will You Help? Now? (IWW Murder Appeal Broadside)
IWW broadside soliciting defense funds after the lynching of an IWW member; references Centralia and ongoing prosecutions.
Great Falls daily tribune — 1919-11-12 (Centralia Massacre / Wesley Everest)
Day-after coverage of the Centralia killings and Wesley Everest lynching
Investigation Activities of the Department of Justice (Palmer Report on Radicalism)
Foundational Palmer Raids document — Attorney General Palmer's catalog of radical publications, organizations, and aliens targeted for arrest and deportation.
New-York tribune — 1919-12-22 (Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman (Soviet Ark deportation))
NY Tribune coverage of the 'Soviet Ark' deportations
Omaha daily bee — 1919-12-22 (Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman (Soviet Ark deportation))
Front-page report on Goldman, Berkman & 247 others deported
Report on House Resolution 225 (Mooney Investigation)
House report on H. Res. 225 to investigate the Mooney–Billings prosecution.
Speech on Revolution (Gitlow, 1919)
Speech by Benjamin Gitlow that became the basis of the criminal-anarchy prosecution decided in Gitlow v. New York (1925).
Stilson v. United States, 250 U.S. 583 (1919)
Supreme Court affirming Espionage Act conviction of socialist anti-draft organizer David Stilson.
The Birmingham age-herald — 1919-11-08 (Palmer Raids (Nov 1919))
Front-page report on federal arrests of alien radicals
The Ogden standard — 1919-11-08 (Palmer Raids (Nov 1919))
Front-page coverage of early Palmer Raids on radicals
The Ogden standard — 1919-11-12 (Centralia Massacre / Wesley Everest)
Front-page coverage of the Centralia, WA Armistice Day clash
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.