August 1917
ResistanceBook sources
The Green Corn Rebellion brings together farmers across racial divisions
Southeastern Oklahoma
White, Black and Indigenous participants joined an uprising against the wartime draft amid grievances over tenancy and landholding. The revolt associated with the Working Class Union was suppressed by posses and followed by arrests and imprisonment.
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Context / qualification
The IWW did not organize the uprising. The coalition’s existence does not establish agreement among all tenants or the disappearance of racial divisions.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 14, pp. 370–371; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- Oklahoma Historical Society: Green Corn Rebellion ↗