Mississippi

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Billington, Monroe Lee. Thomas P. Gore: The Blind Senator from Oklahoma. Lawrence: University of Kansas P, 1967.  Gore was a Mississippi Populist before moving to Texas and then Oklahoma.  Derived from Billington's dissertation "Thomas P. Gore: Oklahoma's Blind Senator." U of Kentucky, 1955.  

Butts, A.B. "Agrarian Legislation in the State of Mississippi." Mississippi Law Journal. 2:434-51. May 1930.  

Ferguson, James S. "Agrarianism in Mississippi, 1871‑1900: A Study in Nonconformity." 2 vols. 639 p. Ph.D. dissertation, U of North Carolina, 1952.  Views Populism as the anti-climax of the agrarian movement.   

_____. "The Grange and Farmer Education in Mississippi." Journal of Southern History. 8(4):497-512. November 1942. 

Gregg, William B. "The Agrarian Movement in Grenada County." M.A. thesis, Mississippi State U, 1953. 107 pp. 

Halsell, Willie D. "The Bourbon Period in Mississippi Politics, 1875-1890." Journal of Southern History. 11(4):519-37. November 1945.  Farmers' Alliance and Populist party hasten decline of Bourbonism. 

Holmes, William F. "The Leflore County Massacre and the Demise of the Colored Farmers' Alliance." Phylon 1973 34(3): 267-274. Examines the Leflore County Massacre in Mississippi as a possible reason for the failure of the Colored Farmers' Alliance in 1889. America: History and Life, 13A:4317

_____. "Whitecapping in Mississippi: Agrarian Violence in the Populist Era." Mid-America 1973 55(2): 134-148.  Whitecapping, a violent, anti-Semitic, anti-Negro dirt farmer movement, arose in the Piney Woods region of Mississippi in response to low prices, rising costs, and increasing tenancy brought about by the crop lien system. Whitecaps resented Negro tenancy on lands acquired by merchants through foreclosures.  Whitecap Clubs, resembling fraternal and military organizations, attempted to intimidate Negro laborers and landowners, and to prevent mercantile land acquisition. Although Whitecaps came from the rural poor, their leaders were from a higher social strata.  The Whitecap region, with a tradition of violence, experienced early industrialization. Whitecapping was the dark side, Populism the enlightened side of agrarian protest. America: History and Life, 12A:4593

Johnson, Cecil. "The Agrarian Crusade, with Special Reference to Mississippi." M.A. thesis, U of Virginia, 1924.  

Kirwan, Albert D. Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics, 1876-1925. 328 p., illus., maps. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1951. Reprinted Gloucester, Massachusetts: Peter Smith, 1964.  Derived from Ph.D. dissertation, Duke U, 1947.  A study of class conflict.  

Latham, Robert C. "The Dirt Farmer in Politics: A Study of Webster County, Mississippi, During the Rise of Democratic Factionalism, 1880‑1910." M.A. thesis, Mississippi State U, 1951.  

Lever, Webbie J. "The Agrarian Movement in Noxubee County." M.A. thesis, Mississippi State U, 1952. 98 pp. 

McCain, William D. "The Populist Party in Mississippi." M.A. thesis, U of Mississippi, 1931. 152 pages.