Debs Timeline
| Sedition Trial | |
|---|---|
| Date | Event |
| 1918, 16 Jun | Canton, Ohio Address |
| 1918, 01 July | Indictment Filed |
| 1918, 9-12 September | Trial in Progress |
| 1918, 12 September | Verdict Filed |
| 1918, 14 September | Sentencing |
| 1919, 27-28 January | Supreme Court Arguments |
| 1919, 10 March | Supreme Court Decision |
Texts
On this Site
Debs, Eugene V. "The American Movement."
Debs, Eugene V. Address in Canton, Ohio.
Debs, Eugene V. "The Issue", Girard Kansas, 23 May 1908
Debs, Eugen V. Statement to the Court.
In Print and on the Web
Debs, Eugene V., Bruce Rogers, and Stephen M. Reynolds. Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations. The Appeal to reason, Girard, Kan, 1908.
Debs, Eugene V., and J. R. Constantine. Letters of Eugene V. Debs. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1990.
Web Resources
Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919), Justia U. S. Supreme Court.
Eugen V. Debs Foundation, Eugene V. Debs Museum, Terre Haute, IN.
Eugene V. Debs Project at Marxists Internet Archive.
Sources
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Brommel, Bernard J. "The Pacifist Speech-Making of Eugene V. Debs." Quarterly Journal of Speech 52 (1966): 146-154.
Darsey, James. "The Legend of Eugene Debs: Prophetic ethos as Radical Argument." Quarterly Journal of Speech 74 (1988): 434-452.
Darsey, James. "Patricia Roberts-Miller, Demagoguery, and the Troublesome Case of Eugene Debs." Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol. 9, no. 3, 2006, pp. 463-470
Darsey, James. The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America. New York University Press, 1997.
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Freeberg, Ernest. Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. Harvard University Press, 2008.
Ginger, Ray. The Bending Cross: A Biography of Eugene Victor Debs. Rutgers University Press, 1949.
Gould, Lewis L. Four Hats in the Ring: The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics. University Press of Kansas, 2008.
Kulik, Brian. “Socialist Editor Eugene Debs: One-Million Votes in Jail.” Media History Digest 5, no. 2 (Spring 1985): 18–50.
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Lomas, Charles W. The Agitator in American Society. Prentice-Hall, 1968.
Longacre, Glenn V. "Free Speech on Trial: Eugene Debs at Canton, Ohio." Prologue Magazine, Winter 2017-2018, vol. 49, no. 4. [https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2017/winter/debs-canton].
Morgan, H. Wayne. Eugene V. Debs: Socialist for President. Syracuse University Press, 1962.
Papke, David R. The Pullman Case: The Clash of Labor and Capital in Industrial America. University Press of Kansas, 1999.
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