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The farmers' movement was, in American political history, the general name for a movement between 1867 and 1896. In this movement, there were three periods, popularly known as the Grange , Alliance and Populist movements.
The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. 1875. The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High ...
The Granger Movement: A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Political, Economic, and Social Manifestations, 1870–1880. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803250277. Ferguson, James S. (November 1942). "The Grange and Farmer Education in Mississippi". Journal of Southern History. 8 (4). Southern Historical Association: 497– 512.
From 1865 to 1896, farmer protests led to the formation of organized movements including the Grange, the Populist Party, the Greenbacks, and other alliances. Farmers cited the reasons for their unhappiness as declining prices, decreasing purchasing power, and monopolistic practices of: 1) moneylenders, 2) railroad corporations, and 3) other ...
Rural American history is the history from colonial times to the present of rural American society, ... Theodore Farmer movements in the South, 1865-1933 (1964) online;
Eminent Indian documentarian Nishtha Jain’s latest effort is an account of the epic, year-long farmers’ protest that took place in India in 2020-21. “Farming the Revolution,” which world ...
The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products.
My grandmother was a farmer. She had 11 children. ... becoming one of the most influential leaders in the early civil rights movement. Ida B. Wells' courageous stand against racial discrimination ...