Espionage Act

United States [1917]

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Debs

  • Eugene V. Debs
    In Eugene V. Debs

    …charged with violation of the 1917 Espionage Act. He was released from prison by presidential order in 1921; however, his U.S. citizenship, which he lost when he was convicted of sedition in 1918, was restored only posthumously in 1976. Debs’s years of living in harsh prison conditions adversely affected his…

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misuse by Palmer

  • A. Mitchell Palmer
    In A. Mitchell Palmer

    …that post, he used the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 as a basis for launching an unprecedented campaign against political radicals, suspected dissidents, left-wing organizations, and aliens. He deported the self-avowed anarchist Emma Goldman and others suspected of subversive activities. On January 2, 1920, government…

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Schenck vs. United States

U.S. involvement in World War I

  • United States of America
    In United States: Mobilization

    …was sternly suppressed under the Espionage Act of 1917. At the same time, the Committee on Public Information, headed by the progressive journalist George Creel, mobilized publicists, scholars, and others in a vast prowar propaganda effort. By the spring of 1918, the American people and their economy had been harnessed…

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