USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Edgar Hoover, what became known as the Palmer Raids peaked on the night of January 2, 1920, when between 3, 000 and 10, 000 people in 35 cities were detained on suspicion of sympathizing with Communists or anarchists. Earlier raids were smaller and one led to the deportation of anarchist Emma Goldman.

Detailed explanation-2: -The raids particularly targeted Italian immigrants and Eastern European Jewish immigrants with alleged leftist ties, with particular focus on Italian anarchists and immigrant leftist labor activists. The raids and arrests occurred under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, with 350, 000 arrested.

Detailed explanation-3: -Alexander Mitchell Palmer (1872–1936), a lawyer, politician, and attorney general of the United States after World War I, is remembered for directing the notorious “Palmer raids, ” a series of mass roundups and arrests by federal agents of radicals and political dissenters suspected of subversion.

Detailed explanation-4: -The nation demanded a response to the bombings, and the Attorney General-who had his eye on the White House in 1920-was ready to oblige. Palmer created a small division to gather intelligence on the radical threat and placed a young Justice Department lawyer named J. Edgar Hoover in charge.