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Source B Emma Goldman's Deportation Statement hearing, she made a last plea which argued that Palmer's actions went against democratic ideals that they During the Red Scare, Emma Goldman was rounded up in one of the Palmer Raids. At her deportation STATEMENT AT THE FEDERAL HEARING ON DEPORTATION: revival of the ancient days of the Spanish Inquisition or Czarist Russia (when anyone who disagreed "I wish to register my protest against these proceedings, whose very spirit is nothing less than a with the government was deported or killed). Today, so-called aliens are deported. Tomorrow American citizens will be banished. Already some "patriots" are suggesting that some native-born American citizens be exiled. The free expression of the hopes of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. The object of the deportations and of the anti-anarchist law is to stifle the voice of the people, to muzzle every aspiration of labor. That is the real and terrible menace of these proceedings. Their goal is to exile and banish everyone who does not agree with the lies that our leaders of industry continue to spread." Emma Goldman New York, October 27, 1919 Exiled: banished, expelled Stifle: restrain or stop Muzzle: prevent (a person or group) from expressing their opinions freely Aspiration: dream or goal Menace: a threat or danger​

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This chapter examines how the First World War and its aftermath fundamentally altered global politics. Empires crumbled, socialist and nationalist revolutions erupted, and millions perished. Meanwhile, in the United States, rising patriotic fervor and wartime demands for “100 percent Americanism” marked immigrant anarchists as doubly dangerous, and Russia's October Revolution amplified antiradical fears. America was distressed by widespread racial violence, its first Red Scare, and a colossal postwar strike wave. In this context, the federal government proved willing to suppress radical speech and deport politically undesirable immigrants, efforts that were met with an unprecedented upsurge in anarchist violence, itself both a result and a cause of increasing repression.

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