Article uses information found in socialist newspapers and the manuscript census to uncover the lives and experiences of local party members of the Socialist Party of Oklahoma with a focus on Marshall and Roger Mills counties.
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Article uses information found in socialist newspapers and the manuscript census to uncover the lives and experiences of local party members of the Socialist Party of Oklahoma with a focus on Marshall and Roger Mills counties.
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Abstract: A century ago, the Socialist Party of Oklahoma ranked among the top three in the nation. Most studies of the party have focused on generalizations and state-level organization, but it was the local activists who gave the party its strength and changed the balance of power in Oklahoma politics through two difficult decades. Using information found in socialist newspapers and the manuscript census, Jim Bissett uncovers the lives and experiences of local party members with a focus on Marshall and Roger Mills counties.
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Bissett, Jim.Socialism from the Bottom Up: Local Activists and the Socialist Party of Oklahoma, 1900-1920,
article,
Winter 2004;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2016926/:
accessed June 8, 2024),
The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org;
crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.