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Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.
May 31, 2024 · Over a century ago, Eugene Debs ran from his prison cell. Debs, a socialist and labor activist, secured nearly 1 million votes while behind bars for running afoul of the Sedition Act of 1918.
Jun 1, 2024 · Eugene V. Debs was president of the newly established American Railway Union when it won national prominence by conducting a successful strike against the Great Northern Railway Company in April 1894.
Jun 22, 2020 · Eugene Debs was a union leader, a Socialist, and a presidential candidate who ran for office from behind bars.
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Running for US president from prison? Eugene V. Debs did it, a century ago
This is an undated portrait of socialist Eugene Debs. Following his unprecedented felony conviction, former president and current Republican...
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Aug 14, 2023 · EUGENE VICTOR DEBS (1855-1926) was one of the greatest and most articulate advocates of workers’ power to have ever lived. During the early years of the labor movement in the United States, Debs was far ahead of his times, leading the formation of the American Railway Union (ARU) and the American Socialist Party.
Eugene V. Debs circa 1920. 1916 — Ran for Congress in his home district in Terre Haute on the Socialist ticket and was defeated. June 16, 1918 — Debs made his famous anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting World War I which was raging in Europe.
Feb 11, 2019 · Eugene V. Debs and the Endurance of Socialism. Half man, half myth, Debs turned a radical creed into a deeply American one. By Jill Lepore. February 11, 2019. Debs ran for President five...
Eugene V. Debs. Beloved by many contemporaries as a man "too good for this world" who would give the clothes off his back to anyone in need, "Gene" Debs was a prominent leader of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen (BLF) in his youth.
Sep 22, 2019 · Eugene V. Debs was a force in American politics a century before Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders would campaign for the White House as a democratic socialist.
Mid soul-stirring music and the joyous shouts from the lips of 4,000 of his friends and neighbors, men, women and children, Eugene V. Debs, President of the American Railway Union, was welcomed home last night, care-worn and weary, from his 18 days’ struggle for victory in the Great Northern strike.
