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Red Scare
After World War I and the Bolshevik Russian Revolution, Communists, people who supports or believes in the principles of communism, which is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, supporting class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person is paid according to their abilities and needs, overpowered Russia in 1917. The Americans feared the Communist ideas. The fear increased when millions of American workers went on strike in 1919. The Red Scare began in April 1919 after postal workers found bombs in packages addressed to famous Americans. Officials never found the sender of but suspected members of the Communists Party.
Many Americans blamed Communist and Radicals, which was people that were related to or affected the fundamental nature of the Communists, for the upheaval, violent and sudden change. Outside the home of attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, in June, a bomb exploded. Palmer took action by organizing police raids to break up the groups of Communist. Palmer’s action later became know as “Palmer Raids”. Government agents arrested suspected Radicals without any evidence.
Palmer later frightened the public by telling them the radicals were planning a revolution. The Red Scare led to the best-known criminal cases in American history. In 1920, two Italian-born anarchists, rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power, Nicco Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested for the murder of a factory paymaster and his guard. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), founded in 1920, to help defend civil rights. ALCU unsuccessfully got the verdict overturned. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed, put to death, and convicted in 1927.
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey born 1887 in Jamaica and moved to the United States in 1916. Marcus was a talented speaker and quickly became one of the country’s famous and controversial black leaders. Garvey’s newspaper, Negro World promoted building an independent black economy. He created the Black Star Steamship Line to encourage worldwide trade among black people. Black leaders like W.E.B Du Bois considered that Garvey’s ideas were dangerous and extreme. After multiple legal problems with his steamship company, Garvey was arrested in 1922 and deported back to Jamaica.

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