A major factor in the election was the infamous Green Corn Rebellion of 1917, which the Socialist Party had helped cause.
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The "'Green Corn Rebellion "'was an armed uprising that took place in rural Oklahoma on August 2 and 3, 1917.
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In 1917, hundreds of men gathered on a farm near Sasakwa to protest the draft in World War I, an event called the Green Corn Rebellion.
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A fictionalized account of the abortive revolt can be found in William Cunningham s novel, " The Green Corn Rebellion, " published by Vanguard Press in 1935.
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In late 1917, the leadership of the Oklahoma Socialist Party disbanded the state party, in the tumultuous aftermath of the failed Green Corn Rebellion, for which Socialists and Wobblies were blamed.
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Sam Marcy, founder of Workers World Party upheld the Green Corn Rebellion as the ideal working class, anti-war struggle in his book " The Bolsheviks and War " published in 1985.
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The Mission was also an unofficial center for the Jones Family, a group active in the socialist movement during World War I . It is thought that some members participated in the Green Corn Rebellion activities of 1917.
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In August 1917 a failed armed march on Washington, DC remembered to history as the Green Corn Rebellion, organized by a local radical organization close to the Industrial Workers of the World, was blamed on the Socialists.
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The so-called Green Corn Rebellion may be said to have started on Thursday, August 2, 1917, when a Seminole County sheriff and his deputy were ambushed near the Little River, a tributary of the Canadian river.
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Some young Pink residents may have been members of the Jones Family, a group active in the Socialist movement during World War I . A few of the group's youth were thought to be participants in the Green Corn Rebellion.
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