Socialist Party of America
The Socialist Party of America was a socialist political party in the United States from 1901 to 1972. In early 1919, it had 100,000 members. In the 1920s they temporarily stopped running their own candidates. They opposed the New Deal by Roosevelt. They held a pacifist position on World War II. In the 1960s, they permanently stopped running their own candidates. Key figures included Eugene V. Debs, Norman Thomas and Max Shactmann.
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Logo of the Socialist Party of America
Election poster for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party of America candidate for President, 1904
Debs was the founding member of the Socialist Party of America.
Executive Secretary Adolph Germer was one of top five Socialist of America leaders prosecuted by the Department of Justice in 1919.
Alfred Wagenknecht, top leader of the 1919 Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party
The five Socialist assemblymen suspended by the New York Legislature in January 1920
Morris Hillquit, Chairman of the Socialist Party of America from the death of Berger until he himself died in 1933
Socialist Party of America ally Robert M. La Follette (left) attempted to build a broad labor alliance during the 1924 campaign and here meets with Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor.
"Leaders of American Socialism" in 1928.(L-R): Jasper McLevy, Morris Hillquit, James Oneal, Norman Thomas, James H. Maurer, Lilith Martin Wilson, William H. Henry, George E. Roewer.
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