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Comrade Johns: Oregon's Socialist Candidate for President in the 1920s
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Event Type: Adult Program
Age Group(s): Adult
Date: 7/7/2015
Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Time: 7:00 PM
Description:
 Frank T. Johns, carpenter and Portland native, ran twice for president with the Socialist Labor Party in 1924 and 1928. This lecture will set Johns’s personal biography against the wider drama of the Socialist movement in the 1920s, when Socialism was a viable political philosophy in the United States.



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Library: Downtown Bend Public Library
Location: Brooks Room
Contact: Tina Walker Davis
Contact Number: 541-312-1034
Presenter: Nathan Pedersen
Link: Frank T. Johns in the Oregon Encyclopedia