Debs on Violating the Sedition Act: Resources

This website is "dedicated to keeping alive the spirit of progressivism, humanitarianism, and social criticism epitomized by Debs." Basically, it's the last word on all things Eugene.

Debs was, after all, a Socialist first and foremost, so it's no surprise that the Marxists do a bang-up job chronicling his life.

This is then-Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders' valentine to his hero, Debs.

Lawyers love Debs, both because of his emphasis on justice and because two of his legal dust-ups led to Supreme Court cases.

Professor Peter Dreier compiled a book of essays on the greatest 20th-century leaders in the campaign for social justice, and Debs made the cut. Read his excellent overview of Debs here.

Salvatore is the most recent biographer of Debs…and makes some great connections between our main man Debs and Bernie Sanders.

C-SPAN did a good series on presidential also-rans in 2012. They have some rare footage of Debs after his jailing and show aspects of the Debs museum.

This is a segment from the Howard Zinn documentary, The People Speak.

This is a cute, short cartoon about Debs. It has no audio, but gets to the essence of Debs.

This is a segment from the speech that led to Debs' arrest, read as part of a Zinn Project program.

This is a photograph of Debs waving goodbye outside of prison.

This is a photograph of a very impassioned Debs delivering his Canton, Ohio, speech.

This is a photograph of a Debs Campaign Button from the 1920 prison campaign for the presidency.