Equality

An American Dilemma, 1866-1896

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ID4157022
AuthorsKaren Cook Bell (0000-0001-9588-4619, Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland), Karen Bell (0000-0003-0809-0680, Bowie State University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume107
Issue3
Pages757-758
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jahist/jaaa394
OpenAlexW3111681796
LanguageEN
Citations received6

A compelling study of social movements in the thirty years following the Civil War, Equality provides scholars with a timely examination of how inequalities emerged during the first American Gilded Age. Charles Postel's analysis could not have come at a more significant moment, as the first decade of the twenty-first century has ushered in a second gilded age of tremendous inequalities. Postel examines how farmhands, women's rights activists, former slaves, and factory workers were all in pursuit of the meaning of equality in America. The book begins with the farmers' Grange, “the largest, strongest, and most impactful social movement of its time” (p. 12). Through the early 1870s, the Grange grew exponentially to 860,000 members of both genders by 1875. In fact, women helped secure its success, “appointed or elected to serve as lecturers, secretaries, and other responsible positions within the organization” (p. 46). The Grange also had a segment

Dilemma · Factory (object-oriented programming · Gilded Age · Inequality · Meaning (existential · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society

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