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Records, 1919-1926.

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Records (1919-1926) of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, files 71-42 and No. 54809-General, largely consist of correspondence of the Service. Topics include deportation of aliens during the Palmer Raids of 1919-1920; correspondence pertains particularly to the cases of Carlo Tresca, Vincenzo Vacirca, and Pietro Allegro, and to deportation proceedings against radicals, anarchists, and communists. Included are correspondence of J. Edgar Hoover, Anthony Caminett of the Department of Labor, and the Italian Ambassador to the Department of State. There are also directives to INS local offices, lists of aliens under investigation, transcripts of hearings, membership lists from the Union of Russian Workers, excerpts from the Russian press and from The Worker, Daily Worker, Moscow News, and The International Sea-Transport Worker, as well as publications and correspondence of the American Civil Liberties Union pertaining to its position on deportation and communists. Newspaper clippingsfrom the Tampa Tribune (Florida) also pertain to deportations and to cases. Materials pertain primarily to Italian and Russian aliens.

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Caminetti, Anthony.

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Tresca, Carlo, 1879-1943

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Carlo Tresca (1879-1943), was an Italian-born anarchist, who emigrated to the United States in 1904. He was a labor organizer, including with the Industrial Workers of the World, a journalist, and editor, notably of Il Proletario, the official newspaper of the Italian Socialist Federation, and of Il Martello, an anti-fascist newspaper. An opponent of both fascism and Stalinism, he was assassinated in New York City in 1943. From the guide to the Carlo Tresca "Autobiography" (typescrip...

Union of Russian Workers.

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Hoover, J.Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

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Director of the FBI. From the description of Typed letter signed : Washington, D.C., to Arthur William Brown, 1941 Sept. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269555861 John Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) served from 1924 to 1972 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). As its first director, Hoover molded the FBI into his image of a modern police force. He promoted scientific investigation of crime, the collection and analysis of fingerprints and the hiring and ...

Allegra, Pietro.

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United States. Immigration and naturalization service

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A federal act of 1882 established procedures for recording immigrants arriving in the United States. The records maintained by federal immigration officials were often called immigration passenger lists of manifests. From the description of Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Savannah, Ga., 1906-1945. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 174142611 Ellis Island, an island in Upper New York Bay, is named for Samuel Ellis, who acquired land on the i...

Vacirca, Vincenzo

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