About Eras
Abolitionism & the Slave Power (1850–1861)
The Haymarket Affair & the Anti-Anarchist Era (1886–1903)
The First Red Scare (1917–1920)
World War II: Japanese Incarceration & the First Smith Act Trials (1941–1945)
McCarthyism (1947–1957)
COINTELPRO (1956–1971)
The Vietnam War Era (1964–1975)
The American Indian Movement & Wounded Knee (1973–1977)
The Reagan Era (1981–1989)
The Anti-Globalization Movement (1999–2001)
The War on Terror (2001–)
The Green Scare (2005–2010)
Occupy Wall Street (2011–2012)
Ferguson & the Movement for Black Lives (2014–2016)
Standing Rock & the #NoDAPL Water Protectors (2016–2017)
J20: The Inauguration Day Prosecutions (2017)
The George Floyd Uprising (2020)
The Stop Cop City Era (2022–)
The Trump-Era Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity (2024–)
Civil Rights & Black Power
THE VIETNAM WAR ERA (1964–1975)
The Vietnam War produced a generation of draft resisters, military deserters, and civil-disobedience defendants. The Catonsville Nine (1968), the Camden 28 (1971), the Pentagon Papers prosecutions of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo (1971–1973), the Chicago Eight conspiracy trial (1968–1970), and the Wilmington Ten (1971) all date to this period.