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Eugene V. Debs:A Graphic Biography
by Noah Van Sciver
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A graphic biography of socialist labor legend Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs led the Socialist Party in the early twentieth-century to federal and state office across the country, helped to pioneer a fighting union politics that organized all workers, and became the beloved figurehead of American radicalism. Imprisoned for speaking out against World War I, Debs ran for president from prison, receiving over one million votes. Debs’s story is the story of labor battles in industrializing America, of a socialist politics grown directly out of the American Midwest heartland, and of a distinctly American vision of socialism.
With the campaign of Bernie Sanders, the rise of mass movements like Occupy and Black Lives Matter, and the Wall Street Crash of 2008, socialism has once again made itself felt in American politics. This graphic biography, published in collaboration with the
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Debs, Eugene V.
By Kyle Anthony
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926)
This is a close-up of Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party politician and American labour leader.
Karsner, David: Eugene Debs close-up, waving, black-and-white photograph, United States, n.d.; source: New York Public Library Digital Collections Website, David Fulton Karsner papers, 1912 – 1929, Record ID: 1918449, http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?psnypl_mss_1145.
Courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Debs, Eugene Victor
Socialist Party politician and American labor leader
Born 05 November 1855 in Terre Haute, United States
Died 20 October 1926 in Lindlahr Sanitarium, Elmhurst, United States
Summary
As a socialist, Eugene Debs unsuccessfully ran for president four times. He served two prison sentences: the first due to his role in the Pullman Strike in 1894, and the second after being indicted under the Espionage Act as result of his criticism of America’s participation in World War I.Eugene Debs Prior to World War I
Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, Eugene Victor Debs (18
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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. Later he helped found the American Railway Union (1894), the Socialist Party of America (1901) and the Industrial Workers of the World (1905). The best-known apostle of industrial unionism in the early years of the 20th century, Debs ran for president of the United States on the Socialist Party ticket five times between 1900 and 1920, winning millions of votes. Although none of his dreams were realized during his lifetime, Debs inspired millions to believe in "the emancipation of the working class and the brotherhood of all mankind," and he helped spur the rise of industrial unionism and the adoption of progressive social and economic reforms.
Debs was born on Nov. 5, 1855, in Terre Haute, Ind., the son of Marguerite Bettrich and Jean Daniel Debs, Alsatian immigrants and retail grocers. At 16, he left school to work as a paint scraper in the Te
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