Populism in the South revisited : new interpretations and new departures /
The Populist Movement was the largest mass movement for political and economic change in the history of the American South until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Populist Movement in this book is defined as the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party, as well as the A...
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University Press of Mississippi,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : populism in the American South / James M. Beeby
- "The race cry doesn't scare us"
- or does it? : populism and race in Grant Parish, Louisiana / Joel Sipress
- "Workingmen's democracy" in the deep South : the Knights of Labor in Georgia politics, 1884-1892 / Matthew Hild
- "Of whom shall the third party be composed?" : urban laborers and the origins of the People's Party in Dallas, Texas / Alicia E. Rodriquez
- Agrarian rebel, industrial workers : Tom Watson and the prospects of a farmer-labor alliance / Michael Pierce
- "Hard times is the cry" : debt in populist thought in North Carolina / David Silkenat
- Reconceptualizing Black populism in the New South / Omar H. Ali
- Creating a New South : the political culture of deep South populism / Lewie Reece
- "[T]he angels from heaven had come down and wiped their names off the registration books" : the demise of grassroots populism in North Carolina / James M. Beeby
- Agrarian producerism after populism : socialism and Garveyism in the rural South / Jarod Roll.
