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The Palmer Raids were at their peak in America. The Palmer Raids were a series of controversial raids by the U.S. Justice and Immigration Departments that lasted from 1918 until 1921. The raids, which were a direct attack on the communist party and the radical left in the US, involved illegal means of gaining information, illegal searches and seizures, mass arrests, deportation, and torture. J Edgar Hoover, the Chief of the Justice Department's Radical Division, actually organized the raids. No wonder he went on to a 48-year career as director of the FBI; the perfect candidate.

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The first Jazz record was made. Jazz is rooted in the African American experience in this country, and early Jazz is a direct product of working-class, New Orleans musicians, but this first Jazz recording was cut by a group of middle-class white men called the Dixieland Jazz Band. Many early Jazz recordings were made by white men, some of who performed in blackface. The first Jazz recordings made by black musicians were made later that year.

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The state of New York introduced a bill to outlaw public flirting. Apparently the bill aimed at prohibiting men from turning around on any city street and looking at a woman 'in that way'. A fine of 25 dollars was the penalty for breaking this law. Its interesting that the government didn't want men to look at women in public, but they didn't mind a woman being brutalized and abused, as long as it was kept private.