Meyer London
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Meyer London was an American politician from New York City. He represented the Lower East Side of Manhattan and was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congress.
London c. 1910s
Congressman Meyer London at a rally for striking Brooklyn streetcar workers, 1916.
In January 1916, London was joined by Socialist Party leaders James Maurer (left) and Morris Hillquit (center) in a meeting with President Woodrow Wilson trying to forestall American entry into World War I.
Socialist Party of America
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The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of America who had split from the main organization in 1899.
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