Smith Act | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Smith Act


00:00:54 1 Legislative history
00:04:58 2 Provisions
00:08:24 3 Alien registration
00:11:40 4 Legal proceedings
00:11:49 4.1 Harry Bridges
00:13:21 4.2 Minneapolis 1941
00:17:26 4.3 Nazi sympathizers and racists
00:18:08 4.3.1 Crusader White Shirts
00:18:50 4.3.2 Washington 1944
00:20:52 4.4 Communist Party trials
00:23:06 5 See also
00:23:25 6 Footnotes
00:23:34 7 External links



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The Alien Registration Act, popularly known as the Smith Act, 76th United States Congress, 3d session, ch. 439, 54 Stat. 670, 18 U.S.C. § 2385 is a United States federal statute that was enacted on June 29, 1940. It set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the federal government.
Approximately 215 people were indicted under the legislation, including alleged communists, anarchists, and fascists. Prosecutions under the Smith Act continued until a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1957 reversed a number of convictions under the Act, as unconstitutional. The law has been amended several times.