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The Green Corn Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in rural Oklahoma on August 2 and 3, 1917. The uprising was a reaction by European-Americans, tenant farmers, Seminoles, Muscogee Creeks, and African-Americans to an attempt to enforce the Selective Draft Act of 1917. [1]
On August 2, 1917, the Green Corn Rebellion uprising led to an increase in anti-socialist and anti-union sentiment in the state. [3] After an explosion at the home of J. Edgar Pew, the vice-president of Carter Oil Company, on October 29, 1917, the TCCD announced the creation of a 150-man Home Guard. The TCCD would later call the Home Guard its ...
In August 1917 a failed armed march on Washington, DC remembered to history as the Green Corn Rebellion, organized by a local radical organization close to the Industrial Workers of the World, was blamed on the Socialists. The massive public outrage which followed prompted the dismantling of the state organization.
Green Corn Rebellion: August 2–3, 1917 Seminole County, Oklahoma: Rebel farmers The uprising was a reaction by radicalized European-Americans, tenant farmers, Seminoles, Muscogee Creeks and African-Americans to an attempt to enforce the Selective Draft Act of 1917 during World War I. [29]
1917 (United States) Green Corn Rebellion occurred. [30] Timeline of labour issues and events. Tom Mooney as a young socialist, 1910. Born: 1882: Died: 1942: 1917 ...
Crazy Snake Rebellion: March 1909 Okmulgee County: 3 Creek Indians Snake Government vs. Local Citizens, 8th Cavalry Regiment U.S. Army, 1st Regiment Oklahoma National Guard. [37] [38] Green Corn Rebellion: August 2–3, 1917 Pontotoc County: World War I: 3 Tenant farmers vs. Local authorities [39] Tulsa Race Massacre: May 31 – June 1, 1921 ...
In 1917, hundreds of men gathered on a farm near Sasakwa to protest the draft in World War I, an event called the Green Corn Rebellion. [5] Geography ...
The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in New York City from 1949 to 1958 were the result of US federal government prosecutions in the postwar period and during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. Leaders of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) were accused of violating the Smith Act, a statute that ...