The Bombing of Wall Street |
Digital Short
An Attorney General Targeted
In 1919, after a series of bomb attacks — one on his own home — Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer set up a new division within the Justice Department. Known as the “Radical Division,” its goal was to identify people who posed a threat to the U.S. social stability, particularly anarchists. And though initially the raids were celebrated, it seemed to many Americans that this was too extreme a violation of civil liberties. The Bombing of Wall Street filmmaker Susan Bellows introduces A. Mitchell Palmer