{"id":1537,"date":"2019-06-01T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T20:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2019-06-01T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T20:24:50","slug":"debs-foundation-to-host-2nd-annual-debs-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/2019\/06\/01\/debs-foundation-to-host-2nd-annual-debs-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Debs Foundation to Host 2nd Annual Debs Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 15th, 10:00 am \u2014 5:00 pm<\/span><\/p>\n

Eugene V. Debs Museum, 451 North 8th Street<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact:<\/b> Allison Duerk, Debs Museum Director (812) 232-2163 or allison.duerk@debsfoundation.org<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cManifestly the spirit of \u201876 still survives. The fires of liberty and noble aspirations are not yet extinguished.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u2014 Eugene V. Debs, \u201cLiberty\u201d (1895)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Eugene V. Debs Foundation will commemorate the 125th anniversary of the Pullman Strike with a day of special programming at the Debs Museum located at 451 North 8th Street in Terre Haute. All events are free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

125 years ago this summer, a quarter of a million rebel railroaders tied up the nation\u2019s rail lines and halted trains from Detroit to the West Coast. Why? Striking in sympathy, they protested inhumane working and living conditions in George Pullman\u2019s company town on Chicago\u2019s south side. Pullman\u2019s famous sleeper cars transformed rail travel, but workers who built them often struggled to make ends meet. At the head of the 1894 Pullman Strike was Terre Haute\u2019s own Eugene V. Debs, president of the American Railway Union. The work stoppage eventually led to martial law in Chicago, deadly conflict between troops and strikers, and Debs\u2019 jailing in 1895. The Pullman Strike also paved the way for labor law reforms, future industrial unions, and Debs\u2019 revolutionary politics. <\/span><\/p>\n

10:00 am – Walking Tour: Gene and Kate\u2019s Neighborhood <\/b><\/p>\n

Debs Foundation Secretary Michelle K. Morahn and research partner John S. Morahn will present a walking tour of the block surrounding the 1890 Debs Home. Get to know the Debs\u2019 neighbors in this once-fashionable residential area of Terre Haute. Tour departs from the Debs Museum. Advance registration required \u00a0\u2014 call (812) 232-2163 or <\/span>register here<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

12:00 pm – Author Talk and Book Signing with Jack Kelly<\/b><\/p>\n

Visiting author Jack Kelly will discuss and sign copies of his recent book <\/span>The Edge of Anarchy: The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, & the Greatest Labor Uprising in America<\/span><\/i>. Debs Foundation President Noel Beasley calls Kelly\u2019s work on the Pullman Strike \u201can excellent depiction of a nation in crisis\u201d and \u201ca timely reflection of the remarkably parallel characteristics and contradictions of that time and our own.\u201d Copies of <\/span>The Edge of Anarchy<\/span><\/i> will be available for purchase in the Debs Museum gift shop for $25.<\/span><\/p>\n

1:00 pm – Debs in Our Voices: \u201cLiberty\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

All are invited to join in a participatory reading of “Liberty,” the speech that Debs delivered to a crowd of 100,000 supporters in Chicago following his release from Woodstock Jail after the Pullman Strike. Readers will share short passages of the speech from the front porch of the Debs Home. A guided tour of the Museum will follow. This presentation of \u201cLiberty\u201d continues the Foundation\u2019s new tradition of bringing Debs\u2019 words to life in our own voices. The first annual Debs Day, designated by Mayor Duke Bennett on June 16, 2018, commemorated the 100th anniversary of Debs\u2019 anti-war \u201cCanton Speech\u201d that resulted in his infamous 10-year prison sentence and landmark free speech case. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Eugene V. Debs Foundation promotes the work and legacy of Eugene V. Debs through education, research and community outreach in addition to operating the Debs Museum. The Foundation keeps alive the spirit of progressivism, humanitarianism, and social criticism epitomized by Debs. <\/span><\/p>\n

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June 15th, 10:00 am \u2014 5:00 pm Eugene V. Debs Museum, 451 North 8th Street Contact: Allison Duerk, Debs Museum Director (812) 232-2163 or allison.duerk@debsfoundation.org \u201cManifestly the spirit of \u201876 still survives. The fires of liberty and noble aspirations are not yet extinguished.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u2014 Eugene V. Debs, \u201cLiberty\u201d (1895) The Eugene V. Debs Foundation will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foundation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debsfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}