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Alexander Mitchell Palmer/Men arrested in raids awaiting deportation hearings. Public domain It was Palmer, with his assistant, the future first FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who organized the so ...
Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1919–1921) Born to a Quaker family near White Haven, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1872, A. Mitchell Palmer attended a Moravian parochial high school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, graduating later from Swarthmore College in 1891. He began working as the official stenographer of the Forty-third Pennsylvania Judicial District ...
Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1872–1936), a lawyer, politician, and attorney general of the United States after World War I, is remembered for directing the notorious “ Palmer raids ,” a series of mass roundups and arrests by federal agents of radicals and political dissenters suspected of subversion. Palmer became attorney general in 1919 ...
American lawyer and public official A. Mitchell Palmer served as U.S. attorney general from 1919 to 1921. His highly publicized campaigns against suspected communists and other radicals in the U.S. touched off the so-called Red Scare of 1919–20. Alexander Mitchell Palmer was born on May 4, 1872, in Moosehead, Pennsylvania.
This anticommunist crusade climaxed during the “Palmer raids” of 1919–1921, when Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s men, striking without warning and without warrants, smashed union offices and the headquarters of Communist and Socialist organizations. Palmer believed that communism was “eating its way into the homes of the American workman.” Palmer charged in this 1920 essay ...
2. Jan. 2024 · The Constitution faced a major test on this day in 1920 when raids ordered by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer saw thousands of people detained without warrants merely upon general suspicion. This occurred during the “Red Scare” of the 1920s, a period of anti-Communist fervor in the United States.
What were the effects of the first Red Scare? The first Red Scare and the Palmer Raids had a number of effects on American society. Thousands of people were arrested. Around 600 people were deported. Some people died or committed suicide in the poor conditions in jail. Immigrants and immigration were blamed for political radicalism.
