Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : populism in the American South / James M. Beeby -- "The race cry doesn't scare us"-- or does it? : populism and race in Grant Parish, Louisiana / Joel Sipress -- "Workingmen's democracy" in the deep South : the Knights of Labor in Georgia politics, 1884-1892 / Matthew Hild -- "Of whom shall the third party be composed?" : urban laborers and the origins of the People's Party in Dallas, Texas / Alicia E. Rodriquez -- Agrarian rebel, industrial workers : Tom Watson and the prospects of a farmer-labor alliance / Michael Pierce -- "Hard times is the cry" : debt in populist thought in North Carolina / David Silkenat -- Reconceptualizing Black populism in the New South / Omar H. Ali -- Creating a New South : the political culture of deep South populism / Lewie Reece -- "[T]he angels from heaven had come down and wiped their names off the registration books" : the demise of grassroots populism in North Carolina / James M. Beeby -- Agrarian producerism after populism : socialism and Garveyism in the rural South / Jarod Roll.

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