Goldman is deported from the U.S. to Russia aboard the USAT Buford, marking a notable incident in anti-radical measures.
On December 21, 1919, Emma Goldman was deported from the United States to Russia aboard the USAT Buford, known as the "Soviet Ark," under the Immigration Act of 1918. This government action underscored the era’s fear of radicalism and marked the beginning of her exile from the country where she had been a prominent political agitator.