Topic: "Security Risks"

Mar 3,

1903

Anarchists Stay Out! : Restrictive Immigration Law Becomes A Model for Future Laws

Jan 15,

1919

National Civil Liberties Bureau Condemns Deportation and Exclusion Laws

Mar 26,

1919

New York Lusk Committee to Investigate Alleged Radicals

Dec 21,

1919

“Red Ark” Sails – Anarchist Emma Goldman, 248 Others, Deported

Feb 2,

1931

First Mass Deportations of Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles

May 26,

1934

McCormack-Dickstein Committee Hearings Begin; Forerunner of HUAC

Sep 2,

1939

FBI Memo Launches Notorious Custodial Detention Index

May 14,

1940

Emma Goldman, Anarchist, Anti-WW I Activist, Feminist, Birth Control Advocate, Dies

Mar 21,

1942

Congress Enforces Japanese-American Evacuation, Makes it a Crime to Leave a Relocation Center

Oct 5,

1944

Poet Langston Hughes Tops HUAC Anti-Communist List with 49 “Affiliations”

Apr 16,

1945

Los Angeles First Unitarian Church Labeled a “Communist Meeting Place”

Mar 12,

1947

Cold War Begins: Truman Doctrine Announced

Feb 20,

1950

Senator Joe McCarthy Claims List of 81 Communists in Government

Mar 29,

1950

Lavender Scare: Senator Claims “Thousands” of Homosexuals in Federal Government

Aug 7,

1950

Artist Rockwell Kent Denied Passport Extension

May 14,

1951

HUAC Publishes “Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications”

Mar 9,

1953

Supreme Court Creates “State Secrets” Doctrine

Apr 27,

1953

President Eisenhower Expands Loyalty Program to Cover Homosexuality

Jan 3,

1955

Civil Service Reports on Impact of Federal Loyalty Program

Jan 27,

1961

Activist Frank Kameny Brings First Gay Rights Case to the Supreme Court

Jan 31,

1969

Nixon Endorses Preventive Detention – No Bail for “Dangerous” Offenders

Sep 30,

1970

“A Rock Group of Some Sort:” FBI Investigates The Grateful Dead

Mar 8,

1971

Activists Raid FBI Office in Media, PA; Steal Documents, Expose Notorious COINTELPRO Program

Aug 19,

1971

Nixon White House Requests Bogus FBI Investigation of Daniel Schorr

Feb 12,

1972

Dorothy Kenyon, Feminist and Civil Libertarian, Dies

Apr 10,

1972

Charlie Chaplin Receives Honorary Oscar, 20 Years After Being Excluded From U.S.

Mar 23,

1973

U.S. Orders Beatle John Lennon Out of U.S. Within 60 Days

Jan 29,

1976

House Suppresses Pike Committee Report on CIA Abuses

Feb 18,

1976

President Ford Bans Assassinations by CIA

Jan 11,

2002

Guantanamo Bay Detention Center Opens – Abuses Follow

Jan 18,

2002

President Bush Declares Guantanamo Bay Detainees Not Prisoners of War

Feb 17,

2006

Tule Lake WW II Internment Center Designated a National Historic Landmark

Feb 18,

2012

Don’t Eat the Thin Mints! Congressman Warns Girl Scouts Are Dangerous!

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