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The People's Party, usually known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was an agrarian populist [2] political party in the United States in the late 19th century. . The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but declined rapidly after the 1896 United States presidential election in which most of its natural ...
The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was a left-wing populist and agrarian political party in the United States in the late 19th century. [15] [16] The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States but fell apart after it nominated William ...
The People's Party of the late 19th century United States is considered to be "one of the defining populist movements"; [316] its members were often referred to as the Populists at the time. [340] Its radical platform included calling for the nationalisation of railways, the banning of strikebreakers, and the introduction of referendums. [344]
The Populist Revolt: A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party (University of Minnesota Press, 1931) online. Jeffrey, Julie Roy. "Women in the Southern Farmers' Alliance: A Reconsideration of the Role and Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth-Century South." Feminist Studies 3.1/2 (1975): 72-91. online
Thomas Edward Watson (September 5, 1856 – September 26, 1922) was an American politician, attorney, newspaper editor, and writer from Georgia.In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover Cleveland, and the Democratic Party.
The latter part of the 19th century was a period of agrarian unrest in the Midwestern United States.From 1865 to 1896, farmer protests led to the formation of organized movements including the Grange, the Populist Party, the Greenbacks, and other alliances.
The white elites (called the "Redeemers"—the southern wing of the "Bourbon Democrats") were in firm political and economic control of the south until the rise of the Populist movement in the 1890s. Local law enforcement was weak in rural areas, allowing outraged mobs to use lynching to redress alleged-but-often-unproven crimes charged to blacks.
Black populism was destroyed, marking the end of organized political resistance to the return of white supremacy in the South in the late 19th century. Nevertheless, black populism stood as the largest independent political uprising in the South since the "general strike" during the Civil War, until the modern Civil Rights Movement. [6]