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The Red Scare Blueprint

By: Cal Winslow

A 1917 effort to deport political radicals from Seattle became the model for all 20th-century deportation crusades.

(MOHAI, 1964.3309.1)

The deportation crusade began in Seattle. The country was at war, an unpopular war, and there was an unsettled timber strike in the woods of western Washington. The city was awash with migrant workers — most of them loggers sheltering from the winter rains. The wartime strike wave continued unabated; from Russia the news was foreboding, with […]

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The deportation crusade began in Seattle. The country was at war, an unpopular war, and there was an unsettled timber strike in the woods of western Washington. The city was awash with migrant workers — most of them loggers sheltering from the winter rains. The wartime strike wave continued unabated; from Russia the news was foreboding, with […]

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The deportation crusade began in Seattle. The country was at war, an unpopular war, and there was an unsettled timber strike in the woods of western Washington. The city was awash with migrant workers — most of them loggers sheltering from the winter rains. The wartime strike wave continued unabated; from Russia the news was foreboding, with […]

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The deportation crusade began in Seattle. The country was at war, an unpopular war, and there was an unsettled timber strike in the woods of western Washington. The city was awash with migrant workers — most of them loggers sheltering from the winter rains. The wartime strike wave continued unabated; from Russia the news was foreboding, with […]

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