History UsefulNotes / EugeneDebs

* The AlternateHistory collection ''Literature/BackInTheUSSA'' is set in a world where Debs leads a Communist revolution in the USA in 1917.

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[[caption-width-right:220:"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."]]

Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative one of history's best-known and most prominent socialists living in the United States]].

* The AlternateHistory collection Literature/BackInTheUSSA is set in a world where Debs leads a Communist revolution in the USA in 1917.

Debs was convicted a second time for denouncing U.S. participation in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. in jail, he developed Cardiovascular problems, which later killed him

* Bernie Sanders voiced him in a 1979 documentary about his life, simply titled ''Debs''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w82pFvUq3o8 The Film can be found here]]

* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's Literature/Timeline191 series, Debs appears in ''The Great War: Breakthroughs'' and ''American Empire: Blood and Iron''.

Debs was the five times the Socialist Party of America presidential candidate.

* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Southern Victory series'', Debs appears in ''The Great War: Breakthroughs'' and ''American Empire: Blood and Iron'', none of which have trope pages

* In the 2014 film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2008655/ The Drunk]]'', the protagonist is his grandson.

* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Southern Victory series'', Debs appears in ''The Great War: Breakthroughs'' and ''American Empire: Blood and Iron'', none of which hsve trope pages

* In the 2014 film ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2008655/ The Drunk]]'', the protagonist is his grandson.

Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative one of history's best-known and most prominent socialists living in the United States]].

* The AlternateHistory collection Literature/BackInTheUSSA is set in a world where Debs leads a Communist revolution in the USA in 1917.

Debs was the five times the Socialist Party of America presidential candidate.

Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894, Debs signed many into the ARU. He called a boycott of the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars, in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike, affecting most lines west of Detroit, and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states. To keep the mail running, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison.

In jail, Debs read various works of socialist theory and emerged six months later as a committed adherent of the international socialist movement. Debs was a founding member of the Social Democracy of America (1897), the Social Democratic Party of America (1898), and the Socialist Party of America (1901).

Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times, including 1900 (earning 0.63% of the popular vote), 1904 (2.98%), 1908 (2.83%), 1912 (5.99%), and 1920 (3.41%), the last time from a prison cell.

* The AlternateHistory collection Literature/BackInTheUSSA by Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne is set in a world where Debs leads a Communist revolution in the USA in 1917.

Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times, including 1900 (earning 0.63% of the popular vote), 1904 (2.98%), 1908 (2.83%), 1912 (5.99%), and 1920 (3.41%), the last time from a prison cell.

Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became [[OverlyNarrowExpletive one of history's best-known and most prominent socialists living in the United States]].