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.
Images for kids
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Election poster for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party of America candidate for president, 1904
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Eugene V. Debs, founding member and icon of the SPA.
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The five Socialist Assemblymen suspended by the New York State Legislature in January 1920.
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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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Clarence Senior, SPA Executive Secretary from August 1929 to late 1936.
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Louis Waldman, a top leader of the Old Guard.
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Haim Kantorovitch, chief theoretician of the Militant faction.
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Norman Thomas, six-time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party.
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The youth and militance of the depression-era SP is reflected in the cover of this 1935 song book published by the SP-affiliated Rand School Press.
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Labor-union and civil-rights leader A. Philip Randolph in 1942.
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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.
