Many later swore they were threatened and beaten during questioning. Government agents cast a wide net, bringing in some American citizens, passers-by who admitted being Russian, some not members of the Russian Workers. ... Pou , a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: "I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely." [26] On May 28, 1920, the nascent American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which was founded in response to the raids, [27] published its Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice , [28] which carefully documented unlawful activities in arresting suspected radicals, illegal entrapment by agents provocateur , and unlawful incommunicado detention. ... ISBN 978-1-84989-944-4 . ^ a b c d e f Avrich, Paul, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02604-1 (1991), pp. 140–143, 147, 149–156 ^ "Plotter Here Hid Trail Skillfully; His Victim Was A Night Watchman", The New York Times, 4 June 1919 ^ "Wreck Judge Nott's Home", The New York Times, 3 June 1919 ^ Hagedorn, 229–30; Coben, 211 ^ Pietruszka, 146–7 ^ Coben 217–8 ^ Coben, 207–9 ^ Coben, 214–5 ^ Coben, 219–21; Post, 28–35. ... Post, 91–2, 96, 104–5, 108, 110, 115–6, 120–1, 124, 126, 131 ^ Post, 96–147, passim ^ Post, 91–5, 96–147 ^ Coben, 230; The New York Times : "Palmer Upholds Red Repression," January 24, 1920 , accessed January 15, 2010, ^ The Washington Post , "The Red Assassins," January 4, 1920 ^ a b Coben, 232 ^ Avakov, Aleksandr Vladimirovich, Plato's Dreams Realized: Surveillance and Citizen Rights from KGB to FBI , Algora Publishing, ISBN 0-87586-495-3 , ISBN 978-0-87586-495-2 (2007), p. 36 ^ Daniels, 545–6 ^ Post, 273 ^ https://www.aclu.org/about/aclu-history ^ Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice . ... Finan, Christopher M., From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A history of the fight for free speech in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 2007) Hagedorn, Ann, Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007) Kennedy, David M., Over Here: The First World War and American Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980) Murray, Robert K., Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919–1920 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955) Pietrusza, David, 1920: The Year of Six presidents (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007) Post, Louis F., The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-twenty: A Personal Narrative of a Historic Official Experience (New York, 1923), reissued: ISBN 0-306-71882-0 , ISBN 1-4102-0553-3 External links [ edit ] Media related to Palmer Raids at Wikimedia Commons
