Populism In The 1890s

The struggle for freedom from the bondage of racial oppression did not stop in America, and it can be remembered that in the 1880s to 1890s, there was a political movement of workers and low scale farmers known as the populist emerging from Midwest and South. In this organization, it was known that black tenant farmers and the low scale white farmers from South would work together against large landowners who were considered the Southern elites. As a united team, the populists became real threats to the dominant groups, but unfortunately, the strong movement of the agrarians was torn by the racial and eventually collapsed.
Genocide and geographical displacement
Racism in America appeared to have started from foreigners who invade the land. The European settlers came to North America and started displacement and genocide to take over the land. The British colonies introduced it and later it was the United States government. The lands that belonged to the natives were forcefully taken with some being killed and later shifted to treaties with certain conditions. The rights of these individual natives were later ignored on the basis that the natives were uncivilized and did not own lands since they lived a nomadic life and even in case where the American natives were
The blacks were free, but very few could own lands. The white masters had landed but lack power over labor. To keep their ex-slaves, they came up with sharecropping. In this case, the black was given lands to rent and payback in the form of production share to the landowners. In this scheme, it was of importance to the landowners since almost all the Blacks wanted to tenant farmers while they were politically weak and economically unstable hence the landowners dictated them as demonstrated by Zieger. It was a new form of racism that blacks in the south experienced after being denied their political and legal