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'Equal Rights to All and Special Privileges to None': Grass-Roots Populism in North Carolina

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21640
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Abstract:
Two 1894 court cases, Charles H. Martin (Populist) v. James A. Lockhart (Democrat) and Cyrus Thompson (Populist) v. John G. Shaw (Democrat) are examined in order to shed light on the appeal of populism as a movement of social and political protest among farmers and the lower classes.
Source:
North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 78 Issue 2, Apr 2001, p156-186, il, por, map, f
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