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When America’s Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I

June 15, 2018

granger_0013987_highresAfter winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation’s new anti-sedition laws.

Read the story at SmithsonianMag.com.

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