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When Sunflowers Bloomed Red - Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America (Hardcover)
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When Sunflowers Bloomed Red - Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America (Hardcover)
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When Sunflowers Bloomed Red reveals the origins of agrarian
radicalism in the late nineteenth-century United States. Great
Plains radicals, particularly in Kansas, influenced the ideological
principles of the Populist movement, the U.S. labor movement,
American socialism, American syndicalism, and American communism
into the mid-twentieth century. Known as the American Radical
Tradition, members of the Greenback Labor Party and the Knights of
Labor joined with Prohibitionists, agrarian Democrats, and
progressive Republicans to form the Great Plains Populist Party
(later the People's Party) in the 1890s. The Populists called for
the expansion of the money supply through the free coinage of
silver, federal ownership of the means of communication and
transportation, the elimination of private banks, universal
suffrage, and the direct election of U.S. senators. They also were
the first political party to advocate for familiar features of
modern life, such as the eight-hour workday for agrarian and
industrial laborers, a graduated income tax system, and a federal
reserve system to manage the nation's money supply. When the
People's Party lost the hotly contested election of 1896, members
of the party dissolved into socialist and other left-wing parties
and often joined efforts with the national Progressive movement.
When Sunflowers Bloomed Red offers readers entry into the Kansas
radical tradition and shows how the Great Plains agrarian movement
influenced and transformed politics and culture in the twentieth
century and beyond.
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