| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement. By Joseph Gerteis. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 274 pp. Cloth, $84.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4210-6. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4224-3.)
In the long debate over C. Vann Woodward's "forgotten alternatives" in the years between Reconstruction and the start of disfranchisement and segregation, the interracial organizing efforts of the Knights of Labor and the Populist Party have long intrigued historians (Howard N. Rabinowitz, "More Than the Woodward Thesis," Journal of American History, Dec. 1988, pp. 842–56). The sociologist Joseph Gerteis offers a fresh analysis of those social, economic, and ultimately political movements by comparing the two organizations in Georgia and Virginia, with special emphasis on Atlanta and Richmond.	1
Class-oriented, the Knights and the Populists nevertheless spanned several economic strata. They portrayed themselves as working people, comparing wage labor and tenant farming to slavery. As "producers of wealth," they clung to a republican belief in civic virtue (p. 5). Citizenship, democratic participation, and social status characterized the fundamental assumptions underlying both movements.	. . .

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