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Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age
Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age
Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age
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A colorful study of the nineteenth century march on Washington, the man who led it, and the national sensation that prefigured the New Deal.

In 1893, America was suffering a serious economic depression. Fed up with government inactivity, Populist agitator Jacob S. Coxey led hundreds of unemployed laborers on a march from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. Their intention was to present a “petition in boots” for government-financed jobs building and repairing the nation’s roads.

On May 1, the Coxeyites descended on the center of government, where a melee ensued between them and the police. Soon, other Coxey-inspired contingents were on their way east from places as far away as San Francisco and Portland. Some even hijacked trains along the way.

In Coxey’s Army, Benjamin F. Alexander brings Coxey and his fellow leaders to life, along with the reporters and spies who traveled with them and the captivated readers who followed the story in the newspapers. Alexander explains how the Coxeyite demands fit into a larger history of economic theory and the labor movement. Despite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what emerged decades later as the New Deal.
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Release dateApr 2, 2015
ISBN9781421416229
Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age

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    During the bitter depression that began in 1893 Jacob Coxey proposed a public works program to put the unemployed to work. To draw attention to what was a novel idea at the time, he called for a march on Washington, DC to demonstrate support for what man considered a radical program. This is an historical overview of what came to be known as "Coxey's Army." There was not one single army; instead, groups marched from different locations, taking different routes, with different results. There were lots of workers, Catholics, and populists in the army who enjoyed the support of local populations who fed the marchers along the way. While Coxey's Army was very orderly, others were quite disorganized.

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