Title Class and the color line : interracial class coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist movement / Joseph Gerteis

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007 ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 274 pages) Series Politics, history, and culture Politics, history, and culture. e-Duke books scholarly collection. Contents Republican radicalism -- Race, class, and republican virtue in the Knights of Labor -- The Knights of Labor in Richmond, Virginia -- The Knights of Labor in Atlanta, Georgia -- Race and the populist "Hayseed Revolution" -- Race and the agrarian revolt in Georgia -- Race and the agrarian revolt in Virginia -- Class, status, power, and the interracial project -- Appendix: data collection, sources, and methods Summary This ms studies class and race boundaries, and interracial political coalitions, in two significant 19th century social movements--the Knights of Labor and the Populist movement A lauded contribution to historical sociology, Class and the Color Line is an analysis of social-movement organizing across racial lines in the American South during the 1880s and the 1890s. The Knights of Labor and the Populists were the largest and most influential movements of their day, as well as the first to undertake large-scale organizing in the former Confederate states, where they attempted to recruit African Americans as fellow workers and voters. While scholars have long debated whether the Knights and the Populists were genuine in their efforts to cross the color line, Joseph Gerteis shifts attention from that question to those of how, where, and when the movements’ organizers drew racial boundaries. Arguing that the movements were simultaneously racially inclusive and exclusive, Gerteis explores the connections between race and the movements’ economic and political interests in their cultural claims and in the dynamics of local organizing. Interpreting data from the central journals of the Knights of Labor and the two major Populist organizations, the Farmers’ Alliance and the People’s Party, Gerteis explains how the movements made sense of the tangled connections between race, class, and republican citizenship. He considers how these collective narratives motivated action in specific contexts: in Richmond and Atlanta in the case of the Knights of Labor, and in Virginia and Georgia in that of the Populists. Gerteis demonstrates that the movements’ collective narratives galvanized interracial organizing to varying degrees in different settings. At the same time, he illuminates the ways that interracial organizing was enabled or constrained by local material, political, and social conditions. -- Publisher website 20240416 Notes Based on the author's Ph. D. thesis, University of North Carolina, 1999 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Knights of Labor -- History SUBJECT Knights of Labor fast Subject Labor unions -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century Coalitions -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century Populism -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century Farmers -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century Working class -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. Coalitions Farmers -- Political activity Labor unions -- Political activity Populism Race relations Working class -- Political activity SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Subject Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822390237 082239023X 9786613023315 6613023310 1283023318 9781283023313

Other Titles Interracial class coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist movement

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