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E73: Ben Fletcher, part 1

Working Class History

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Ben Fletcher and the Socialist Party

Ben Fletcher was born in 1890, a native Philadelphian. His parents were both migrants from the south and it's most likely that both of them were born into enslavement. By around 1910, 20 years old, he was a working man who never graduated high school. He joins the Socialist Party of the United States led by Eugene Debs but doesn't say why.

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