The Green Corn Rebellion

by William Cunningham

Book Overview

These days, rural Oklahoma is the last place anybody would look for leftist revolutionaries, but in 1917 the area exploded into full-blown insurrection. The state's tenant farmers, many of whom were Socialist Party members, viewed the Great War in Europe as a conflict that benefited only the rich. When the federal government enacted a draft, an uprising in eastern Oklahoma saw local townspeople skirmishing with rebellious farmers, including whites,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806140577
• ISBN13: 9780806140575
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.6"