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  • In an interview with writer Mira Luma, Dr. Gordon Nembhard talks about her research on Black cooperatives throughout US history.
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    Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists : Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South [1 ed.] ,

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    Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South M AT T H E W H I L D

    The University of Georgia Press Athens & London

    © by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia All rights reserved Set in Berthold Baskerville by Bookcomp, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. P RI NTE D I N TH E U N ITE D STATE S OF AM E RICA

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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hild, Matthew. Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and populists : farmerlabor insurgency in the late-ninete

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  • 1. UNIT 6 Forging an Industrial Society

  • 2. Forging an Industrial Society  amerika went from a rural samhälle beginning of the Civil War to urbanizing, industrial one bygd the end of the century  Economic and technological change allowed a whole new civilization to emerge  The gods part of the ’s saw the rise of industry and industrial giants  American movement to urban areas brought into question the spirit of självständighet, but also expansion and closure onto the Western frontier  Reformers ushered in an age of more active governmental affairs on the social and business fronts  Economic change brought political and social turmoil and allowed for the expansion of labor unions  Disputes over monetary policies divided industrialists and farmers and gave rise to the Populist party  The South remained untouched by this prosperity and African Americans became victims of institutionalized racism  As the century ended Americans were again gripped by expansionism a
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    Introduction by Zanetta Jones.

    For as long as there have been Africans in America, there have been examples of Black social, cultural and economic solidarity. Often formed in response to systemic exclusion and economic stagnation, examples range from mutual aid networks, to freedom farms and grocery cooperatives.   

    Though centuries of erasure have shrouded the impact Black Americans have had on the history and development of modern cooperative economic movements, countless historical examples remain. 

    Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard is a political economist specializing in economic development policy, Black political economy, and popular economic extensive research chronicles the robust (though mostly-forgotten) history of a people determined in their fight for self-sufficiency, communal resilience and economic prosperity. 

    In an interview with writer Mira Luna, Dr. Gordon Nembhard talked about her research on African American cooperative economics, which she further detailed in