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**For more on labor history, see United States History II.5**

Link to [|The Pullman Strike] for an overview from Illinois History Magazine (1994)
 * Link the The Pullman Strike from Encyclopedia of Chicago

[|The Parable of Pullman] from the Illinois Labor History Society gives a brief overview of the Pullman Strike.

[|The True Story of How One Man Shut Down American Commerce to Avoid Paying His Workers a Fair Wage]from Think Progress (2014).


 * The Origins of Labor Day, PBS (September 2, 2001)**



[[image:primary_sources.PNG]]Primary Sources
The Pullman Strike of 1894, has a lesson plan organized around primary documents from The History Project, University of California Davis

Letters on the Pullman Strike

The Great Railway Strike of 1894, Library of Congress


 * [|George Pullman: His Impact on the Railroad Industry, Labor, and American Life in the Nineteenth Century]. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

**Eugene Debs**
[|Eugene V. Debs biography]

[|"Socialism is the Only Remedy:"] An Interview with Eugene V. Debs, Woodstock Jail, June 26, 1895

Eugene Debs Got 1 Million Votes for President—As Convict Number 9653, //The Progressive// (November 2, 2016)