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Eugene Debs and the American Movement
A documentary of worker struggle centered around the life and times of Eugene Debs.
Eugene Debs & the American Movement is an educational video that documents fifty years of long-suppressed history. Using extensively researched photographs, drawings and newsreel footage, it tells a story of the bloody strikes and brutal government reaction to the American workers' attempts to organize. This film is movingly narrated in Deb's own words, read from his speeches and writings, by his friend and comrade, Shubert Sebree.
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Eugene V. Debs Himself
Shubert Sebree Himself
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