“The First Anarchist That Ever Came to Atlanta”: Hiram F. Hover from New York to the New South

Baker, Bruce

doi:10.1057/9780230601789_3

Radicalism in the South Since Reconstruction 2006

DOI: 10.1057/9780230601789_3

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“The First Anarchist That Ever Came to Atlanta”: Hiram F. Hover from New York to the New South

Bruce Baker¹

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“…38 Events in Greenville were part of a pattern of persistent and, in some cases, resurgent black political power in the urban South during the 1880s, a pattern whose scope and significance historians have yet to fully appreciate. 44 Hover stayed in Greenville only briefly, but within weeks of his appearance, the CWA claimed fifteen clubs there with as many as 500 members, "most of the members being colored people." 37 West, "From Yeoman to Redneck," ch.…”

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“A Hot Municipal Contest”: Prohibition and Black Politics in Greenville, South Carolina, after Reconstruction

West

2012

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During the late nineteenth century, contests over prohibition gripped hundreds of American towns and cities, nowhere with greater consequences than in the post-Reconstruction South. This article examines those effects in Greenville, South Carolina, a small marketing and manufacturing center in the white-majority upcountry. During the 1880s, prohibition split white Democrats who had “redeemed” Greenville's town government just a few years before and led to a surge in voter registration and participation among African Americans. The liquor question's repercussions for politics in the Gilded Age South have been largely neglected, both by social historians of prohibition and by political historians, who have failed to see it as one of the issues that roiled the region's politics between Reconstruction and the Populist rebellion. This article also emphasizes the overlooked importance of municipal elections and governance—even in so small a place as Greenville—as an arena for African Americans’ political activity. Greenville's black voters used their influence during the 1880s to achieve modest but tangible gains in education and municipal services and to erect at least a partial bulwark against the tide of white supremacy. These developments were part of a region-wide revival in African Americans’ municipal power, which Southern Democrats were careful to target in their disfranchising campaigns as the century drew to close.

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“A Hot Municipal Contest”: Prohibition and Black Politics in Greenville, South Carolina, after Reconstruction

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“The First Anarchist That Ever Came to Atlanta”: Hiram F. Hover from New York to the New South

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“A Hot Municipal Contest”: Prohibition and Black Politics in Greenville, South Carolina, after Reconstruction

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