: The Woodrow Wilson administration used the Espionage and Sedition Acts to weaponize the law against pacifists, socialists, and "subversives".
The book by Adam Hochschild explores a volatile period in U.S. history (1917–1921). It details a massive assault on civil liberties triggered by World War I, including mass imprisonments, censorship, and systemic violence against labor activists, immigrants, and Black Americans. : The Woodrow Wilson administration used the Espionage
: The period was marked by intense labor strikes (e.g., the IWW or "Wobblies"), racial massacres like those in East St. Louis and Chicago, and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. including mass imprisonments
: Post-war hysteria led to the Palmer Raids, which saw thousands of immigrants arrested and many deported under the direction of a young J. Edgar Hoover. and systemic violence against labor activists