About Eras
Abolitionism & the Slave Power (1850–1861)
The Haymarket Affair & the Anti-Anarchist Era (1886–1903)
The First Red Scare (1917–1920)
World War II: Japanese Incarceration & the First Smith Act Trials (1941–1945)
McCarthyism (1947–1957)
COINTELPRO (1956–1971)
The Vietnam War Era (1964–1975)
The American Indian Movement & Wounded Knee (1973–1977)
The Reagan Era (1981–1989)
The Anti-Globalization Movement (1999–2001)
The War on Terror (2001–)
The Green Scare (2005–2010)
Occupy Wall Street (2011–2012)
Ferguson & the Movement for Black Lives (2014–2016)
Standing Rock & the #NoDAPL Water Protectors (2016–2017)
J20: The Inauguration Day Prosecutions (2017)
The George Floyd Uprising (2020)
The Stop Cop City Era (2022–)
The Trump-Era Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity (2024–)
Civil Rights & Black Power
About The Haymarket Affair & the Anti-Anarchist Era (1886–1903)
The Trial of the Chicago Eight (1886–1887)
The Altgeld Pardons (1893)
Alexander Berkman & the Homestead Attentat (1892–1906)
Emma Goldman's Blackwell's Island Sentence (1893–1894)
The Criminal Anarchy Laws & the Turner Case (1901–1904)
THE HAYMARKET AFFAIR & THE ANTI-ANARCHIST ERA (1886–1903)
After a bomb killed police at a Chicago labor rally on May 4, 1886, eight anarchists were convicted with no evidence linking them to the device; August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer, and George Engel were hanged on November 11, 1887, and Louis Lingg died in his cell. Eugene V. Debs was jailed during the 1894 Pullman Strike, and after Leon Czolgosz assassinated President McKinley in 1901, Congress passed the Anarchist Exclusion Act of 1903 — the first federal law to bar immigrants purely for their political beliefs.