Roaring Twenties | Rise of the Radicals | 1
American History Tellers
A New Year's Eve Address by Attorney General Mitchell Palmer
On january first, 19 20, a new decade dawned. An attorney general, a mitchell palmer, prepared for an all out assault on radicalism. In a new year's eve address, palmer pledged that the justice department would keep up an unflinching, persistent, aggressive warfare. Recent immigrants with those ties, however tenuous, were especially vulnerable to palmer's attack.
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