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Jailing Radicals in Detroit
Barkley, Frederick R. | January 31, 1920 issue

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On January 2, 1920, Arthur L. Barkey, chief agent of the Department of Justice in Detroit, Michigan, received an order from Attorney General Palmer instructing Barkey, according to his own statement, to raid the headquarters of a group of interdicted organizations, principally the Communist party, "as long as they continue to meet," in a "supreme effort to break the back of radicalism" in Detroit. As a result, eight hundred men were imprisoned for from three to six days in a dark, windowless, narrow corridor running around the big central are away of the city's antiquated Federal Building.

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BARKEY, Arthur L.; RADICALISM; RADICALS; IMPRISONMENT; DETROIT (Mich.); MICHIGAN; UNITED States
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