History of the United States II / Unit 5 USH2 0619 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Colored Alliance
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The idea
The Colored Farmers' Alliance organised Black farmers across the South; the anchor calls it the largest African American organisation in the country.
In practice
Alliance membership, White and Black, passing two and a half million, the anchor says.
Where people slip
The anchor and Digital History put the Colored Alliance near a million members; the Yawp says as many as two hundred fifty thousand.
Your place on the trail
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