1919
8 verified events recorded in 1919.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1919-11-11 | American Legion Founded with Corporate Backing as Anti-Radical Force Theodore Roosevelt Jr. · Hamilton Fish III · George White · American Legion | confirmed | |
| 1919-11-10 | Abrams v. United States: Holmes Dissents, Articulates 'Marketplace of Ideas' Free Speech Theory Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Justice Louis Brandeis · Jacob Abrams | confirmed | |
| 1919-11-07 | Palmer Raids Begin: Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover Arrest 6,000 in 36 Cities, Deport 249 on "Soviet Ark" A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · U.S. Department of Justice · Emma Goldman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1919-09-22 | Great Steel Strike Crushed Using Red Scare Propaganda, Palmer Raids American Federation of Labor · United States Steel Corporation · Elbert H. Gary · Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1919-08-01 | Hoover Named to Lead Justice Department Radical Division, Origin of Permanent Political Dossier System J. Edgar Hoover · A. Mitchell Palmer · Department of Justice · General Intelligence Division | confirmed | |
| 1919-07-27 | Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot Erupts as White Mobs Attack Black Neighborhoods, 38 Killed Chicago Police Department · Irish American athletic clubs · Black Great Migration communities · Governor Frank Lowden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1919-06-04 | Senate Passes 19th Amendment Sending Women's Suffrage to States for Ratification U.S. Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · Woodrow Wilson · National American Woman Suffrage Association · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1919-03-03 | Schenck v. United States: Supreme Court Creates 'Clear and Present Danger' Test, Upholds Espionage Act Convictions Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Charles Schenck · Socialist Party of America | confirmed |