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 World War II: Japanese Incarceration & the First Smith Act Trials (1941–1945)
Executive Order 9066 & the Camps (1942–1946)
The Test Cases: Hirabayashi, Yasui, Korematsu & Endo (1942–1944)
The Heart Mountain Draft Resisters (1944–1947)
The Minneapolis Smith Act Trial (1941)
The Imprisoned Conscientious Objectors (1940–1946)
WORLD WAR II: JAPANESE INCARCERATION & THE FIRST SMITH ACT TRIALS (1941–1945)
The 1941 Minneapolis trial of Socialist Workers Party and Teamsters Local 544 leaders was the first prosecution under the new Smith Act, imprisoning eighteen organizers for their politics. The next year, Executive Order 9066 forced roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans into incarceration camps — resistance that produced the Supreme Court cases of Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui, and the 1944 imprisonment of the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee draft resisters.