Socialist Party of America facts for kids

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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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  Debs was the founding member of the Socialist Party of America

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  Executive Secretary Adolph Germer was one of top five Socialist of America leaders prosecuted by the Department of Justice in 1919

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  Alfred Wagenknecht, top leader of the 1919 Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party

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  The five Socialist Assemblymen suspended by the New York Legislature in January 1920

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  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

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  Clarence Senior, Socialist Party of America 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 of America

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  The youth and militance of the Great Depression-era is reflected in the cover of this 1935 song book published by the Socialist Party of America-affiliated Rand School Press

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  Labor union and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph in 1942

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In Spanish: Partido Socialista de América para niños