That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 percent. AMERICANS MAKE THEIR VOICES HEARD ON THE ...

Since the 1800s, from Eugene Debs to the Milwaukee “sewer socialists,” the US socialist movement has been especially vibrant in the Midwest — and continues to shape American heartland ...

Longtime worker's advocate, Socialist Eugene Debs, a Terre Haute native, ran for president from a Georgia prison cell. advertisement. Indianapolis Star.

CANDIDATE DEBS SMITES CAPITAL; Tells Socialist Clergy They Will Also be "Undesirables" Because of Their Faith. GLORIFIES "LOWER" CLASS The Sweatshop Ought to be the Emblem of the Old Parties, He ...

Debs ran for president as the Socialist Party's candidate every year from 1900 to 1912. In 1918, he gave an antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio that got him convicted under the country’s wartime ...

In the election of 1920, Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist Party presidential candidate, polled nearly a million votes without ever hitting the campaign trail. Debs was behind bars in the federal ...

Socialist Party leader Eugene V. Debs delivers his famous antiwar speech in Canton, Ohio, on June 16, 1918. This photograph was used as Exhibit No. 17 by the prosecution in Debs’ sedition trial.

Jill Lepore explores the life of Eugene V. Debs and the legacy of his socialist politics. Homepage. ... Eugene V. Debs: Trade Unionist, Socialist, Revolutionary 1855-1926, Folkways Records, 1979 ...

The story of one of the most prominent socialists in American history: Eugene Debbs. Alternately loved and reviled, Eugene Debs was a passionate labor leader and a formidable speaker in a time of ...

Perennial Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs delivers an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, on June 16, 1918. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images.

But Debs was a socialist, a free speech champion, and a fearless organizer. Trump is no Eugene Debs. Trump could, like Debs, wind up running for president from prison.

Ernest Freeberg: Eugene Debs was one of the founders and the longtime leader of the Socialist Party in the United States. He came up through the labor movement and first went to prison in 1895 for ...