Reds in America
Reds in America is a 1924 book by Richard Merril Whitney. Subtitled as "the present status of the revolutionary movement in the U. S. based on documents seized by the authorities in the raid upon the convention of the Communist party at Bridgman, Mich., Aug. 22, 1922, together with descriptions of numerous connections and associations of the Communists among the Radicals, Progressives, and Pinks."
The 1922 Bridgman Convention of the Communist Party USA was raided by local and federal law enforcement authorities. A large quantity of documents was seized in an operation that gained national headlines. Two 1923 test trials of the Michigan criminal syndicalism law resulted from arrests, with trade union leader William Z. Foster freed by a "hung jury," while Communist Party leader C. E. Ruthenberg was convicted. Ruthenberg died in 1927, just after his appeals were exhausted and just before sentence was enforced. No additional trials associated with the 1922 Bridgman raid were conducted.
