Socialist Party of America facts for kids
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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Election poster for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party of America candidate for president, 1904
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SPA ally Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (left) attempted to build a broad labor alliance during the 1924 campaign. He meets here with Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor.
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Bayard Rustin, an important member of the Socialist Party throughout the decade of the 1960s, was elected a National Co-Chairman late in the decade.