Coxey"s army

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Benjamin Alexander writes very well. Benjamin Alexander writes very well/5(3). Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey Paperback – January 1, by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes (Author)Cited by:   Coxeys army book Army explains how the demands of the Coxeyites—far from being the wild schemes of a small group of cranks—fit into a larger history of economic theories that received serious attention long before and long after the Coxey march.

Despite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what, some forty years later, emerged as the New Deal. : Radical L.A.: From Coxey's Army to the Watts Riots, (): Stevens, Errol Wayne: BooksCited by: 5. Coxey’s Army explains how the demands of the Coxeyites—far from being the wild schemes of a small group of cranks—fit into a larger history of economic theories that received serious attention long before and long after the Coxey march.

Despite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what, some forty /5(2). While Coxey’s Army set up alcohol-free camps and welcomed men and women both black and white, other factions of the army took more drastic measures.

Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images A huge throng of “General” Jacob Coxey’s unemployed workers march through a town on the way to Washington, : Brandon Weber.

Coxey’s Army, a group of the unemployed who marched to Washington, D.C., in the depression year of It was the only one of several groups that had set out for the U.S. capital to actually reach its destination. Coxey's Army Coxey's Army in Washington, D.C., May Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

(Digital File Number: cph 3b). Coxey's Army was an protest march to Washington, D.C. organized by businessman Jacob S. Coxey as a response to the severe economic hardship caused by the Panic of Coxey planned for the march to leave his hometown of Massillon, Ohio on Easter Sunday Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age (Witness to History) 1st edition by Alexander, Benjamin F.

() Hardcover on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers/5(3). The New York Times ran a number of wire service reports immediately before Coxey’s Army left Massillon, Ohio on Ma Coming from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C., the tone of the writing can best be described as bewildered amusement.

It is claimed by Marshal Browne that nearly fifty recruits have arrived in Massillon, but up to last night, none of them had been. Coxey's Army was a protest march by unemployed workers from the United States, led by Ohio businessman Jacob Coxey. They marched on Washington D.C. inthe second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time.

Coxey's Army is a timely book that evokes the recent Occupy movement while resonating against the notion of our own time as a second Gilded Age. Benjamin Alexander writes very well.

Benjamin Alexander writes very : Benjamin F. Alexander. On May 1,a tattered and hungry army of unemployed people from the western and midwestern states converged on Washington DC in the first protest march on the nation's capital.

Coxey's Army tells the story of the remarkable movement to persuade Congress and President Cleveland to create public works jobs and stimulate the American : Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes.

Twenty years later, following a much smaller and less remembered march of a second “Coxey’s Army,” Coxey was permitted to ascend the steps and speak unhindered. And on May 1,a decade after the New Deal administration of FDR had indeed put the unemployed to work building roads (among many other types of job), Coxey read his.

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Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age: Benjamin F Alexander: Books - (3). In this first book to trace the subsequent struggle between the radical left and L.A.s power structure, Errol Wayne Stevens tells how both sides shaped the citys character from the turn of the When the depression of the s prompted unemployed workers from Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, “Coxey’s Army” /5.

Get this from a library. Coxey's army. [Henry Irving Tragle;] -- Re-creates that historic march and its aftermath which started May 1, Coxey's Army explains how the demands of the Coxeyites--far from being the wild schemes of a small group of cranks--fit into a larger history of economic theories that received serious attention long before and long after the Coxey march.

Despite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what, some forty years /5(2). Coxey's Army explains how the demands of the Coxeyites--far from being the wild schemes of a small group of cranks--fit into a larger history of economic theories that received serious attention long before and long after the Coxey march.Coxey’s Army explains how the demands of the Coxeyites—far from being the wild schemes of a small group of cranks—fit into a larger history of economic theories that received serious attention long before and long after the Coxey march.

Despite running a gauntlet of ridicule, the marchers laid down a rough outline of what, some forty /5(3).Jacob Sechler Coxey Sr.

(Ap – ), sometimes known as General Coxey, of Massillon, Ohio, was an American politician who ran for elective office several times inin andhe led "Coxey's Army", a group of unemployed men who marched to Washington, D.C.

to present a "Petition in Boots" demanding that the United States Congress allocate funds to create Born: Jacob Sechler Coxey, ApSelinsgrove.