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"The Scab" (1888)
Just in time for Labor Day, a Debs broadside against strikebreakers written during a major railroad strike.
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"The New Woman" (1895)
Eugene Debs, 1895: "Men have exercised all authority, and woman’s sphere has been limited to meek submission."
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"The Senate Nuisance — Abolish It!" (1915)
Debs: not a fan of the "world's great deliberative body."
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Some Wonderful News
I have a book deal!
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"The Negro: His Present Status and Outlook" (1918)
One of Debs's longest writings on black liberation, excoriating the crimes of racial tyranny and calling for independent black worker organizing.
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W.E.B. Du Bois's Forgotten Obituary of Eugene V. Debs
Almost wholly overlooked, Du Bois's brief-but-striking obit appeared in the December 1926 issue of The Crisis.
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Eugene Debs's First Plane Ride
Debs's comments from a local Indiana newspaper in July 1914.
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