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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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June 2023

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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"The Crime of Lynching and 'White Supremacy'" (1917)
Debs lambasts the idea of white supremacy in an uncovered article.
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April 2023

The Silent Souls in the Ranks (1915)
Debs's ode to the rank and file, first published in The Western Comrade.
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March 2023

Pioneering Black Socialist George Woodbey's 1921 Letter to Eugene Debs
Another find from the archives: Woodbey, a Christian socialist, writing to a still-imprisoned Debs.
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A. Philip Randolph at the 1967 Debs Dinner
He "was poor in the things of this world, but rich in the things of the spirit," Randolph says of Debs in these previously unpublished remarks.
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November 2022

"Servant Girls" (1903)
Original subtitle: "Eugene V. Debs writes incisively of some of the 'problems' of the ruling class."
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Bloomers (1895)
In an 1890s mini-article, Debs comments on that scandalous mode of dress.
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September 2022

"The Genius of Freedom" (1920)
Another unearthed Eugene Debs article.
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August 2022

"All Humanity," 1911
Debs in the Texas Socialist newspaper "The Rebel"
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