page_title: August Palm
section_title: Visit to the US
hierarchical_section_title: August Palm / Life / Visit to the US
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of August Palm Mäster Palm, at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm.
context_page_description: August Teodor Palm was a Swedish socialist activist and a key person in introducing the then revolutionary social democratic labour movement in Sweden.
context_section_description: In 1900, August Palm was invited by the Scandinavian club of the Socialist Labor Party of America in Providence, Rhode Island, in co-operation with similar clubs in New York City and Brooklyn, to visit the United States, as a means to attract more members to these clubs. The trip started on 1 September 1900 and is described in the Swedish book Ögonblicksbilder från en tripp till Amerika (Snapshots from a Trip to America), published in 1901.
caption: Statue of Mäster Palm at Norra Bantorget in Stockholm
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