Earlier this week
...know, there were like fourteen socialist chapters in Oklahoma. Really. I mean, you know, socialism—who stood for socialism? Eugene Debs, Helen Keller, Emma Goldman, Clarence Darrow, Jack London, Upton Sinclair. Yeah, socialism had a good name. It needs...
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...of ordinary Americans. Sanders drew his inspiration intellectually from early 20th century socialists, such as Eugene Debs, which allowed his opponents to portray him as a fringe character or a left-wing crank. But Sanders' message was consistent, and...
...seat to which he had been elected in the U.S. House. The great orator of the grassroots opposition to the war, Eugene Victor Debs, was arrested, tried and jailed. From his Georgia prison cell, Debs would seek the presidency on the Socialist line in 1920...
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...On this day in 1918, Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs gave a speech in Canton, Ohio denouncing America's participation in what we now call World War I. For this "crime," Debs would spend nearly three years rotting in prison, convicted of violating...
...Debs memorial fellowship to study the history of American labor and reform movements. Charles King, secretary of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation in Terre Haute, said the program demonstrates “the labor heritage of this area and of Indiana, which runs very...
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