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Eugene V Debs Hall in Buffalo, NY is a 501(c)7 nonprofit social club; and home to the Eugene V. Debs Local Initiative, a project to document and commemorate Buffalo's labor movement history. Former New York radio station WEVD (now ESPN radio), then owned by the socialist Yiddish newspaper the Jewish Daily Forward , took its call letters from ...
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. The circumstances are obviously different. Debs, despite his influence and fame, was effectively a fringe candidate that year; Trump has already held the office and is running as the near ...
When the number assigned to Debs changed, a new campaign button emerged: “For President, Convict No. 9653.” Even from prison, Debs cleverly electioneered through the new medium of motion pictures.
Before Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a historic verdict on Thursday, the most well-known convict seeking the Oval Office had been Eugene Debs, a ...
Longtime worker's advocate, Socialist Eugene Debs, a Terre Haute native, ran for president from a Georgia prison cell. Retro Indy: Meet Indiana's Socialist presidential candidate who ran from a ...
Clifford Berryman's cartoon depiction of Eugene V. Debs' campaign from prison. This was the first election in which women from every state were allowed to vote, following the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in August 1920 (just in time for the general election).
Eugene V. Debs was a presidential candidate for the Social Democratic Party in 1900 and thereafter for the Socialist Party in four more elections: 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920. In the 1920 election, while in federal prison for violating the Espionage Act of 1917 with a speech opposing the draft , he received 913,664 votes, the most ever for a ...
Eugene Debs (imprisoned 1919–1921), an anti-war socialist, was convicted of 10 counts of sedition. On September 18, 1918, he was sentenced to ten years in prison and life disenfranchisement . [ 14 ] [ 15 ] On April 13, 1919, Debs was imprisoned; protests of his imprisonment lead to the May Day riots of 1919 .