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Jonathan Rees on Eugene V. Debs
On June 16, 1918, Eugene V. Debs gave a speech at Nimisilla Park in Canton, Ohio before 1,200 people. Read the speech today, and it is difficult to see why it led to his arrest and prosecution for sedition. As Debs’s foremost biographer, Nick Salvatore, explains, Debs had said many of the same things before [...]
19Aug2008 | mdblogger | 2 comments | Continued