History of the Labor Movement: Farmers and the Grange

by Stephen Koppekin | Mar 8, 2018 | History of Labor Laws, Labor Laws, Organized Labor, Stephen Koppekin

Founded by Oliver Kelly in 1867, the Grange began as a fraternal farming organization. Kelly, a Minnesota farmer working in US Bureau of Agriculture, was directed by president Andrew Johnson to survey Southern farmlands devastated by the Civil War. The goal was to...

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