Biography
Allan S. Broms appears in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence" among people convicted and jailed under World War I–era free-speech statutes — chiefly the Espionage Act, the Sedition Act, draft-obstruction charges, or wartime state and local laws. Per that record, on September 28, 1917 in Two Harbors, Minnesota, he was sentenced: Socialist, of St. Paul, 90 days for utterances attacking the war, constituting disorderly conduct. Bemidji, Minn.-u-Jesse Dunning, I. W. W. The NCLB — the direct predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union — compiled these cases from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919 as a public record of the wartime suppression of free speech, a free press, and peaceful assembly.
