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

Social Democratic Party of America

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The Social Democratic Party of America (SDP) was a short-lived political party in the United States established in 1898.

Social Democratic Party of America

1900 NEC members

Cover motif of the paperback edition of Frederic Heath's Social Democracy Red Book

The Chicago SDP made use of the same clasped-hands-over-a-globe logo that was later appropriated by the Socialist Party of America.