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The Populist Movement

An excerpt from an anti-saloon songbook written in 1899.

An excerpt from an anti-saloon songbook written in 1899.

Citation Information: McCauley, W. F, excerpt from “Anti-saloon songs,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/44e5958dd130086c9ce3bb967dcc97dd.

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Courtesy of University of California via HathiTrust.

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A photograph from approximately 1907 of Thomas E. Watson and family.

A political cartoon about William Jennings Bryan, probably from 1906.

An excerpt from a biography of James B. Weaver written by E. A. Allen in 1892.

An excerpt from a speech made in the NC Congress about race and Populists in 1900.

An excerpt from an anti-saloon songbook written in 1899.

A printed broadside from Darlington, SC on May 24, 1899, beginning “Brothers of the Farmers’ Alliance,” about cotton bagging prices.

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