Chapter 7 Eugene Debs and Socialism history
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
"Canton Speech."
Debs reviewed many of the issues that he had spoken about earlier in his career. He talked about capitalism as one of the causes of the war and complained about the burden of the war on workers. He also spoke in praise of socialism:,the speech was considered treason
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party
Eugene V. Debs was an American Socialist leader and five time presidential candidate. In 1897 he created the Social Democratic Party of America. He received nearly one million votes for president while he was imprisoned in jail.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Founded in 1920. The ACLU seeks to protect the civil liberties of individuals, a group that aimed (and still aims) to defend the constitutional rights of American citizens.
Espionage Act of 1917
forbidding people to speak out against the war.
Pullman Strike
in Chicago, Pullman cut wages but refused to lower rents in the "company town", Eugene Debs had American Railway Union refuse to use Pullman cars, Debs thrown in jail after being sued, strike achieved nothing
Jim Crow/Jim Crow Laws
set of laws in the South that promoted segregation, discriminated against black people
Jane Addams worked with Du Bois and others in forming
the NAACP.
Socialism
was an economic system in which the government controlled or regulated major, or important, industries.
Samuel Gompers
worked to organize workers of different trade unions into one large labor organization called the American Federation of Labor (AFL)