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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 ]
The Green Corn Ceremony (Busk) is an annual ceremony practiced among various Native American peoples associated with the beginning of the yearly corn harvest. Busk is a term given to the ceremony by white traders, the word being a corruption of the Creek word puskita (pusketv) for "a fast". [ 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 ...
Eastern United States and Colorado. Coal Creek War Colorado Coalfield War Battle of Blair Mountain. Miners and unions. The Coal Wars, or the Coal Mine Wars, were a series of armed labor conflicts in the United States, they occurred mainly in the East, particularly in Appalachia. [ 30 ] Battle of Athens (1946) August 1–2, 1946.
Oklahoma suffered from widespread Germanophobia, which saw the cities of Kiel, Bismark, and Korn were renamed Loyal, Wright, and Corn, respectively. [47] In late 1917, the leadership of the Oklahoma Socialist Party disbanded the state party, in the tumultuous aftermath of the failed Green Corn Rebellion, for which Socialists and Wobblies were ...
1835 – Destruction of Noyes Academy, Canaan, New Hampshire, a racially integrated school. 1835–1836 – Toledo War, a boundary dispute between states of Michigan and Ohio. 1836 – Cincinnati Riots of 1836, Cincinnati, Ohio (race riots) 1837 – Flour Riots, New York City. 1837 – Murder of abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy.
March 1886 (United States) The Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 was a labor union strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers. [ 20 ] 1 May 1886 (United States) Workers protested in the streets to demand the universal adoption of the eight-hour day.
In 1935, Cunningham published his two books: The Green Corn Rebellion, a fictionalized account of Oklahoma farmers protesting the United States' involvement in World War I; and Pretty Boy, a novel recounting the legend of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd.