1917
14 verified events recorded in 1917.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-12-10 | Hitchman Coal v. Mitchell: Supreme Court Authorizes Injunctions to Enforce Yellow-Dog Contracts Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Mahlon Pitney · United Mine Workers of America · Hitchman Coal and Coke Company | confirmed | |
| 1917-11-14 | Night of Terror as 33 Suffragists Brutalized at Occoquan Workhouse by Prison Guards Lucy Burns · Dora Lewis · Alice Cosu · W. H. Whittaker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1917-11-05 | Buchanan v. Warley: Supreme Court Strikes Down Racial Zoning, Property Rights Trump Civil Rights Supreme Court of the United States · NAACP · Moorfield Storey · Louisville, Kentucky | confirmed | |
| 1917-08-01 | Frank Little Lynched: IWW Executive Board Member Murdered by Vigilantes in Butte Frank Little · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Butte vigilantes | confirmed | |
| 1917-07-28 | War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion Bernard Baruch · President Woodrow Wilson · U.S. War Department · Navy Department | confirmed | |
| 1917-07-12 | Bisbee Deportation: Phelps Dodge and Vigilantes Illegally Deport 1,300 Striking Miners Phelps Dodge Corporation · Walter Douglas · Sheriff Harry Wheeler · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-22 | First Suffragist Arrests Begin for White House Picketing as State Repression Escalates Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · National Woman's Party · Woodrow Wilson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-15 | Espionage Act Signed: Wilson Criminalizes Antiwar Speech, Targets IWW Labor Organizers and Socialists President Woodrow Wilson · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Eugene V. Debs · Victor L. Berger · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-15 | Wilson-Era Wartime Executive Architecture: Espionage Act, War Powers Statutes Build Permanent Emergency-Authority Template Woodrow Wilson · Bernard Baruch · Herbert Hoover · William McAdoo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1917-06-08 | Speculator Mine Fire Kills 168 Workers: Anaconda Safety Failures Trigger Butte Strike and Repression Anaconda Copper Mining Company · Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) · Metal Mine Workers' Union · Montana National Guard | confirmed | |
| 1917-04-20 | Justice Department Authorizes American Protective League, 250,000-Member Vigilante Surveillance Network Thomas Gregory · A. M. Briggs · Bureau of Investigation · American Protective League · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-04-13 | Committee on Public Information Created: Wilson Establishes Federal Propaganda Machine President Woodrow Wilson · George Creel · Secretary of State Robert Lansing · Secretary of War Newton Baker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-01-16 | British Intercept Zimmermann Telegram, Demonstrating Value of Signals Intelligence to U.S. Policy Arthur Zimmermann · British Admiralty Room 40 · Woodrow Wilson · Walter Hines Page · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1917-01-10 | National Woman's Party Begins Historic White House Picketing as Silent Sentinels Alice Paul · Lucy Burns · National Woman's Party · Woodrow Wilson | confirmed |