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Eugene V. Debs: Legacy of Socialism

This document provides a process paper for a history fair project about Eugene V. Debs, nicknamed "The Father of Socialism." The students chose Debs as their topic because he never received the praise deserved for running for president four times as a socialist and founding the Socialist Party. In their research, the students used a variety of sources from websites, books from their school and public libraries, and primary sources. They decided to present their findings in a website to display both graphical and textual information about Debs' leadership role and impact on history in a visually engaging way. The website would allow them to share more information than a simple display board. Debs led one of the largest strikes in American history and founded the Socialist Party in

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Eugene V. Debs: Legacy of Socialism

This document provides a process paper for a history fair project about Eugene V. Debs, nicknamed "The Father of Socialism." The students chose Debs as their topic because he never received the praise deserved for running for president four times as a socialist and founding the Socialist Party. In their research, the students used a variety of sources from websites, books from their school and public libraries, and primary sources. They decided to present their findings in a website to display both graphical and textual information about Debs' leadership role and impact on history in a visually engaging way. The website would allow them to share more information than a simple display board. Debs led one of the largest strikes in American history and founded the Socialist Party in

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Eugene V.

Debs: The Father of Socialism

Flor Garcia
Ariel Velazquez
Jose Delgado
Word count: 462

Process Paper
When we had to choose an individual with leadership and contained a legacy in history,
like most people we thought about famous individuals in history: Martin Luther King Jr.
Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington. However, we predicted that, like us, many
students participating in this years history fair would immediately think about using well
renowned people in history. Therefore, we decided to search for someone that really never got
the praise they really deserved. This is when we came upon someone who ran for presidency four
times and was declared by many as the The Father of Socialism.
Eugene V. Debs was born November 5, 1985 and died with a legacy that many do not
know. Our research started by finding websites that were related to our topic. Also, a variety
of books were found in our school library and we used them during our work time. We
individually continued on to online resources at home, starting mostly with databases. We wrote
down most of the things on our history packets that were interesting, not repeats, or proved that it
was a turning point. Eventually resources were not enough so we decided to use the public
library, and more primary sources. We knew these would end up being important and would give
us an extended variety of sources. We chose the website because it has always been simpler.
Websites allowed us to be more creative and resourceful than other categories.

When it was time to choose what kind of presentation category we would use, we all
came to the conclusion that a website would be the best kind of presentation to create. A website
will display both graphically and textually Eugenes leadership role and his effect in history. We
feel that by creating a visually and fluent website, we would be able to capture and expose

Eugene V. Debs to the most we could. Another reason why we chose this type of presentation
was because we did not want to join the bandwagon and follow through with an, in our opinion,
simple board display. The amount of research and factual information that we would
gather based on Debs would be too much for a simple display board.
The Father of Socialism, is what they call him. Eugene V. Debs became a historical
leader in socialism in the United States. He lead one the largest strikes in American history the
famous Pullman Strike. After the strike fail, Eugene ran for president in 1900 as a socialist. The
following year, Eugene created the Socialist Party, a party that still exists today. This party shows
Eugenes legacy today as people see socialist programs, such as welfare and Medicare, being
established by the federal government.

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