Remember an Okie rebellion this Labor Day
7 September 2009
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(No Likes Yet) Loading ...From The Tulsa World:
Ninety-two years ago this summer, one of the most wretchedly poignant episodes in Oklahoma history played out in the tangled hills and bottom land between Ada and Seminole.
Some sharecroppers and tenant farmers got together and decided it was up to them to put the government of the United States in its place. Their chief complaints were against the bankers and landlords who kept them barefoot and broke, and a president who wanted to send their sons to far-off battlefields.
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