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The Farmers Protest Movement: The Grange And The Panic Of 1873

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Do you think farmers should have rights or say so to control crop and shipping prices? Farmers grow the food we eat today! Farmers also have to think about their families: the health and well being. So when farmers aren’t making enough to support their families then what? They will stop producing for the world and only produce for themselves! This problem was very big in 1875 and some years to follow. This problem was called The Grange. The Grange helped better farmer’s lives, and it also played a part in Women’s and African American Civil rights. (“Farmers’ Protest Movements” http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs- transcripts-and-maps/farmers-protest-movements-1870-1900-issue) The history of The Grange also known as The …show more content…

Court cases were still going on due to the railroads irritation that they could not charge what they wanted. People started their own way of helping out against the over priced land and unfair protest. Those in small towns and cities would do a stock trade in the middle of town, scared they would one day run out of the supplies they were use to getting from farmers all over the nations. There were less food, clothing, and other supplies in stores. There were Great Demands during the time of the Grange so sell prices started to go up. The Laws regulated sell prices of some things so that the newer farmers and the farmers that had stop farming could slowly get back into farming. Although The Grange had a negative impact on some people, it did have a positive impact on women and African Americans.(misty4th7/1/16. “The Grange Movement, 1875.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 4 Nov. 2012, …show more content…

As Marti notes, “The battle for suffrage was brought to the Grange at an early stage of its development,when Grange members were debating whether or not to support national suffrage.” First, The Grange smartly recognized the importance of including women. Women often proved to be the most dedicated members of the Grange at the meeting, they would support the men or their husbands of the meetings. Women knew the struggles of the men and what the sell and shipping prices did to the family as a whole. Donald B. Marti looked to define the roles of which women played in the Grange, he also helped to get more women to participate in meeting for the support. The more support they had, the better the outcome they would have. Marti later wrote a book called “Women of the Grange” where he explained all the things he seen going on during the Grange era. The Grange meetings never segregated men, women, African Americans, other societies,which added African Americans in. In 1870 The first national farm organization to attempt to organize African American

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