Emma Goldman - Arrest and Deportation via Ellis Island

Anarchist and activist Emma Goldman was arrested in 1919 during the U.S. government’s Red Scare prosecutions and was deported from the United States in December 1919; she departed through Ellis Island. The arrest and subsequent deportation of Goldman are documented in government records and contemporary press accounts of the period's immigration and political enforcement actions. Ellis Island served as the processing point for her removal as recorded in archival sources.