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Baggozi, Richard P. "Populism and Lynching in Louisiana." American Sociological Review. 42(2):355-68. April 1977.  Comments on Inverarity's article.  Also see Ira Wasserman, "Southern Violence and the Political Process." pp. 359-62, and Whitney Pope and Charles Ragin, "Mechanical Solidarity: Repressive Justice and Lynchings in Louisiana," pp. 363-68. 

Daniel, Lucia Elizabeth. "The Louisiana People's Party." Louisians Historical Quarterly. 26:1055-1149. October 1943.  

Dethloff, Henry Clay. "The Alliance and the Lottery: Farmers Try for the Sweepstakes, 1892-1896." Louisiana History. 6(2):141-59. Spring 1965.  The anti‑lottery movement provides a common impetus and a meeting for rural and urban reform movements in Louisiana. America: History and Life, 3:899

_____. "The Longs: Revolution or Populist Retrenchment?" Louisiana History. 19(4):401-12. 1978.  Longism had its roots in Populism, but was more radical. America: History and Life, 16A:7891

_____. "Populists and the Potpourri of Reform: Louisiana, 1890-1900." Paper and presentation, Thirty‑fifth Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association, Washington, D.C., October 29 - November 1, 1969.  Mentioned in Richard Maxwell Brown, "The Thirty‑fifth Annual  Meeting." Journal of Southern History. 36(1):72-73. February 1970.  Populist‑‑spawned reform significantly altered political and social structure of Louisiana.   

_____. "Populism and Reform in Louisiana." 388 p. Ph.D. dissertation, U of Missouri, 1964.  Dissertation Abstracts, 25:10:5887.  Populism stimulated an intellectual and moral reawakening contributing to the achievement of some positive reforms in Louisiana.  

Gambino, Richard. Vendetta: A True Story of the Worst Lynching in America, the Mass Murder of Italian-Americans in New Orleans in 1891, the Vicious Repurcussions that Linger to this Day. 198 p. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. 

Hair, William Ivy. Boubonism and Agrarian Protest: Louisiana Politics, 1877-1900. 305 p. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1969.  Derived from doctoral dissertation, Louisiana State U, 1962.  Dissertation Abstracts 231004. September 1962.  Negro and white agrarianism was effectively crushed by the Bourbon regime.  

Howard, Perry H. Political Tendencies in Louisiana: 1812-1952. 231 p. LSU Studies, Social Science Series No. 5. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1957.  Finds Populism at the center of class conflict.  

Inverarity, James. "Populism and Lynching in Louisiana: 1889-1896: A Test of Erickson's Theory of the Relationship Between Boundary Crises and Repressive Justice." American Sociological Review 1976 41(2): 262-279.  Applies [Kai T.] Erickson's theory of the relationship between crises in a community's solidarity and its exercise of repressive justice to the relationship between the Populist disruption of the Solid South and the incidence of lynching.  There was a relationship between Populist competitiveness and the incidence of lynchings in a parish. America: History and Life, 14A:8510

McWhiney, Grady. "Louisiana Socialists in the Early Twentieth Century: A Study of Rustic Radicalism." Journal of Southern History. 20(3):315-36. August 1954.   Louisiana Populism was a forerunner of socialism in the state.   

Penny, James Sterling. "The People's Party Press during the Louisiana Political Upheaval of the Eighteen-Nineties." Master's thesis (Journalism), Louisiana State University, 1942.  129 pp. 

Pope, Whitney and Charles Ragin, "Mechanical Solidarity: Repressive Justice and Lynchings in Louisiana," American Sociological Review. 42(2):363-68. 1977.  Also see Ira Wasserman, "Southern Violence and the Political  Process." pp. 359-62 and Richard P. Baggozi, "Populism and Lynching in Louisiana." pp. 355-68.  

Sipress, Joel M. "The Triumph of Reaction: Political Struggle in a New South Community, 1865-1898." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1993.  DAI, 54, no. 12A, (1993): 4568.  From 1865 to 1900, black laborers and white yeomen competed with the Grant Parish elite for local political power.  The political victory of the Grant Parish elite did not come easily.  Black laborers and white yeomen proved unable to form lasting alliances across racial lines.  

Thompson, Alan S. "Populism in Shreveport: Cal Hicks Versus Newton C. Blanchard." North Louisiana Historical Association Journal 1986 17(1): 17-28.  In the 1890's, Calvin Hicks, a self-styled Jeffersonian-Jacksonian reform Democrat from Shreveport, began to preach the Populist line of free silver, government ownership of railroads, and especially his concern that the party bosses of Caddo Parish were not taking into account the best interests of the common people, particularly the farmers. As a Populist candidate for Congress, editor, and continuing critic of local banker Newton C. Blanchard, Hicks nevertheless faced the common Southern dilemma of refusing to abandon the Democratic Party while advocating and defending Populist programs. America: History and Life, 25A:7215

Vegas, Lena Marie. "The Populist Party in Louisiana." Master's thesis, Tulane University, 1942.  134 pages.  

Wasserman, Ira. "Southern Violence and the Political Process." American Sociological Review. 42(2):359-62. 1977.  Also see Richard P. Baggozi, "Populism and Lynching in Louisiana." pp. 355-68 and Whitney Pope, and Charles Ragin, "Mechanical Solidarity: Repressive Justice and Lynchings in Louisiana," pp. 363-68.