Grass-roots socialism
Subtitle: radical movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943
By: James R. Green.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780807103678
Subjects: Socialist Party (U.S.); Socialist Party (U.S.). Oklahoma; Socialism -- Southwest, Old
Description: In Grass-Roots Socialism, James Green includes information about the party's propaganda techniques, especially those used in the lively newspapers that claimed fifty thousand subscribers in the Southwest by 1913, and information about the attractive summer camp meetings that drew thousands of poor white tenant farmers to week-long agitation and education sessions. In this broadly based study, Green examines such popular leaders as Oklahoma's Oscar Ameringer (the "Mark Twain of American Socialism"), "Red Tom" Hickey of Texas, and Kate Richards O'Hare, who was second only to Eugene Debs as a Socialist orator. - Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The setting: a new south in the west; title: I. From Populism to Socialism in the Southwest, 1895-1907; title: II. Southwestern Progressivism and Agrarian Socialism, 1908-1911; title: III. Troublesome questions; title: IV. Propagating the Socialist gospel; title: V. Industrial unions and the Socialist Party, 1910-1912: the Proletarian perspective; title: VI. "The swelling minority": patterns of Socialist support in the Southwest, 1912; title: VII. Socialism and the Southwestern class struggle, 1913-1915; title: VIII. From Socialist activity to social banditry: the politics of frustration, 1915-1916; title: IX. War and repression, 1917-1920; title: X. "If you don't weaken": Southwestern Socialists in the desperate years, 1921-1943