Top Pun’s Puns Not Guns Peace Blog

December 21, 1919
Amidst a strike for union recognition by 395,000 steelworkers, the “Red Scare” was launched with the deportation of Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, and some 250 other radicals. They were deported to Russia aboard the S. S. Buford (”The Soviet Ark”).  J. Edgar Hoover, heading the Justice Department’s General Intelligence Division, advanced his career by implementing to the fullest extent possible the government’s plan to deport all foreign-born radicals.  Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman also organized against World War I
December 21, 1965
Student anti-war activists Tom Hayden, Staughton Lynd, and Herbert Aptheker began a visit to Hanoi, North Vietnam.
December 21, 1969
Seven hundred supporters visited jailed Vietnam War resisters at Allenwood Federal Penitentiary, Pennsylvania.
 

Note: This Day in Peace History material is adapted by Top Pun from This Week in Peace History, a publication of www.peacebuttons.info, and This Week in Peace & Justice History from the San Antonio Peace Center.

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