ONE
RED DIAPER BABY
THE WORKING CLASS AND THE
EMPLOYING CLASS HAVE NOTHING IN
COMMONTHERE CAN BE NO PEACE SO LONG AS HUNGER AND WANT ARE
FOUND AMONG MILLIONS OF WORKING
PEOPLE AND THE FEW WHOMAKE
UP THE EMPLOYING CLASS HAVE ALL THE GOOD THINGS OF LIFE BETWEEN
THESE
TWO CLASSES
TOGETHER
CAKE
ON THE
STRUGGLE
POLITICAL
MUST GO ON
ON
AS WELL AS
UNTIL
ALL
THE
COME
TOILERS
THE INDUSTRIAL
FIELD
AND
AND HOLD THAT WHICH THEY PRODUCE BY THCIR LABOR
FROM THE
INDUSTRIAL
CONSTITUTION
OF THE
WORKERS OF THE WORLD 1905
WAS BORN ROXIE AMANDA DUNBAR DUST BOWL
BABY THEY CALLED ME
AND MY NICKNAME WAS
BABY WAS SURELY UNWANTED LAST CHILD WITH
TWO BROTHERS
LAURENCE ELEVEN AND HANK TWO
AND
SISTER VERA
NINE
WOULD ASK
IF
HAD WANTED
DADDY
THEY
ME WHEN HE TOLD ME
AND HE WOULD SAY SURE ELSE WOULDNT HAVE
DOLLARS TO COME AND BIRTH YOU ONCE
UNDERSTOOD
ABOUT THOSE HARD TIMES
DOCTOR TEN
PAID
HOWREALLY
YET
CERTIFICATE
DADDY
MAMAS AS
OF FEED STORE AND
MY LIFE
THEY HAD BEEN
DESTITUTE
ON MY BIRTH
BEGAN ON
REALIZED
LISTED
HOUSEWIFE
HE MEANT WHAT HE SAID
HIS OCCUPATION AS
PROPRIETOR
SOUNDING SO SECURE
HOT LATE
SUMMER SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1938
IN THE ONEROOM SHACK WHERE THE
FIVE OF THEM LIVED BEHIND
UNCLES
HOUSE FOR THE FIRST THREE DAYS
MY
MY NAME WAS MARVEL NAMED AFTER MAMAS BEST FRIEND
FAILED
IN
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS
WHO SANG
WAS BORN
OPERA
HONKYTONKS BUT MAMA HAD
FIGHT WITH MARVEL
AND DECIDED NOT TO NAME ME AFTER HER
DADDY CAME UP WITH THE NAME
ROXIE HE ALWAYS TOLD ME HE SAW THAT NAME ON
MARQUEE IN NEW
ORLEANS FRENCH QUARTER WHEN HE WENT THERE WITH SOME
OTHER COW
HE SAID THAT THE ROXIE CLUB WAS NAMED AFTER
BOYS AS
TEENAGER
SINGER
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BABY
IN
IN
RED DIRT
GROWING UP OKIE
RED DIAPER
RED DIRT
12
WOODS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA THE GLORY DAYS MY FATHER
HE CLEANED HIS HUNTING RIFLE THE
TELL STORIES ABOUT THEM WHILE
LIKED
TO
WEDNESDAY
SMELL
OF
AND TENT REVIVALS
WOULD EVEN
WITH THE
STORY
GUN OIL AND FLINT WENT
YOUR GRANDPA ORGANIZED ALL THE
COTTON PICKERS AND WHEAT THRASHERS
YON
THEM
ALL
AND
AND TENANTS
SHARECROPPERS
TO THE SCHOOL
ELECTED
PAPA GOT HIMSELF
FROM HERE TO
MIGRANTS
BOARD
SAME
THAT
SCHOOL
HOW OLD
GOOD
WERE YOU THEN
NEXT
HE TOLD
ME
LOVED
AND
INTEREST
0BU
ONE
WANT
BIG
UNION
WOBBLY DREAMS
OF EVERYTHING
OWNERSHIP
PUBLIC
NO POLICE
NO MATTER HOWMANY
ASKED
TO HEAR HIS AGENDA OF
PROFITS
NO MILITARY
DRAFT
THE EQUALITY
TIMES
ABOLITION
NO
THE
OF WOMEN AND ALL RACES
LOST IN
TO HIMSELF
HE WOULD SAY AND SMILE
OF
MILITARY
MEMORY
ELEC
OF THE
THE WOBBLIES WERE MOSTLY ANARCHISTS AND SUSPICIOUS
VOTED FOR EUGENE
TORAL SYSTEM BUT MANY OF THEM LIKE MY GRANDFATHER
DEBS AND THE SOCIALIST
PARTY ALL FIVE
TIMES
HE RAN DADDY EXPLAINED
IT
THAN SOME PLACES WHY BY
WAS DIFFERENT HERE IN OKLAHOMA
MEMBERS OF THE SO
HAD
MORE
DUESPAYING
AND FOURTEEN OKLAHOMA
TWELVE THOUSAND
IN THE UNION
CIALIST
PARTY THAN ANY OTHER STATE
HUNDRED SOCIALISTS TO OFFICE
ELECTED OVER
THAT
NINETEEN
YEAR THEY
SO WHAT HAPPENED
THAT THE KLAN DROVE
SONOFAGUN WOODROWWILSON
THAT
EDGAR HOOVER WIPED
MER AND HIS GOON
IN JAIL OR
KICKED THEM OUT OF
FARMERS
BANKROLLED THE KLAN
RIDING
CROSSES
GOOD CHRISTIANS
LIKE HIS
SERVICE
THEY
FATHER WAS
WHENEVER HE TALKED
MAMA WAS
THE COUNTRY
THEY
ALL
OUT
YOU
HIM AND
OUT THE
THAT GANGSTER
IWW PUT
THE DADGUMMED
SWELLED
UP LIKE
FREETHINKER
BECAUSE
HARDSHELL BAPTIST CONVERT AND
ONCE
TO
THEM ALL
RICH WHEAT
TICK
NIGHT
BURNING
WERE
ABOUT CHRISTIANS
WE MOVED
PAL
TOWN SUNDAY
WOULD LOWER MY HEAD
WAS
DEVOUT BAPTIST
NEVER MISSED
MORNING AND
CHURCH
NIGHT
THE
COLLECTION
THE SKY BYE AND
KLAN AND
TO THE
CHRISTIAN
BYE
MY GRANDFATHERS
1927
AND STARE
AT
WERE POOR
HIS GNARLED
DOWN THE
THE WEALTHIEST
WITH
POOR
IF
WOULD SHIFT
FATHER
RUNNING WATER
FATHER GREW
UP
TO
OR EVEN
PIEDMONT
FORCE
MY PARENTS
AS SHARECROPPERS
MAR
ASKED
EYES AWAY FROM THE
HANDS HE DIDNT
LIVED
ANY
SAID
POLICE
GRANDPA WAS RICH
HIS
STREET
FAMILIES
HYMN
FORMER AFFLUENCE WHEN
THEY RETUMED
WHY ARE WE SO
MILITIA
HE
WOBBLY
THE
THE WOBBLY CONSTITUTION
THAT
NED IN
UT
PLATE
FROM
CAMP
DADDY
DADDY SCORNED
HYPOCRITES
OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES
ANY WORKER WHOJOINED THE ARMY
WOULD BE DENIED
MEMBERSHIP FOREVER
LIKE
IVJW CONSTITUTION
BEING
REMINDED
TWO OF HIS MOTHERS SISTERS
THAT WE
AMONG
IN
TOWN MEANING THEY HAD TWOSTORY HOUSES
AND BATHROOMS THE BIG
FAMILY HOUSE WHERE MY
STILL
STOOD ONE OF THE SEVEN BIG HOUSES IN
TOWN BUT IT
NO LONGER BELONGED TO OUR FAMILY
DID ALL RIGHT UNTIL THE DUST BOWL AND THE
DANGED DEPRESSION
WHY EVEN RICH BANKERS WERE JUMPING OUT OF WINDOWS BACK THEN
DANGED ROOSEVELT
DUMPED OUR CROPS IN THE OCEAN AND GOT THE BANK
BACK ON THEIR FEET THEN TRIED
TO DRIVE US ALL OFF THE LAND
WASNT
ABOUT TO BE RUN OFF TO NO CALIFORNIA
ERS
OSCAR AMERINGER
HOMA
1940
ASKED
STOCK BURNING BARNS AND CROPS LYNCHING
KILLING
DADDY
KIND
MY
WHAT DID THE WOBBLIES
TO PUT IN
PIE IN
AND
PREACHER AND THE SLAVE TO THE TUNE OF
THE SWEET BYE AND BYE AND MAMA WOULDSTEAM
DESPITE
DOCTORING
SCHOOL
TROUBADOURJOE HILLS
DADDY
ABOUT YOUR AGE TEN ELEVEN BUT WAS GOOD SHOT PAPA ALWAYS
WHEN HE MADE HIS ROUNDS
CHOSE ME TO RIDE SHOTGUN ON HIS WAGON
OUT SINGING
BIBLE
TRIED NOT TO FIGHT ABOUT IT
PARENTS
DIME
13
AND SUMMER
MEETING
PRAYER
MY
ME
GIVE
WOULDBREAK
THE SCHOOL
BUNCH OF LANDLORDS TRIED TO TAKE
YOU GO TO ONE TIME
AND BLUE FLAGS PAPA AND ALL US
WITH GUNS WAVING THEIR RED WHITE
IT
OUT WITH THEM AND WE
BROTHERS HELD UP THERE FIVE DAYS SHOOTING
WHUPPED THEM
NIGHT
BABY
IN
BECAME THE
HE WAS DOUBTFUL
1907
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
IF
SOCIALIST
PARTY
ORGANIZER
ABOUT ORGANIZING
IN
YOU DONT WEAKEN
AMERINGER
HAD ONCE REGARDED FARMERS AS
CAPITALISTS
NOT EXPLOITED
AS THE OWNERS OF THE MEANS OF
PRODUCTION WITH
MOTHER GREW
NOT
BUT
UP
KNOWEXISTED
AFTER
MEETING IN
HE WAS ASTONISHED
HARRAH
TO DISCOVER
WAGE LABORERS
FIRST
FARMERS
MASS SCALE IN OKLAHOMA
THEY ADOPTED
THE RELIGIOUS
MY GRANDFATHER
EVANGELISTS
HUGE WEEKLONG ENCAMPMENTS WITH CHARISMATIC
TO
LOSE
WHERE MY
AN AMERICA HE DID
THE TOWN
STARVING
POORER THAN THE WHITE
WORKERS HE HAD BEEN ORGANIZING
IN NEW ORLEANS
BETWEEN 1906 AND 1917 THE WOBBLIES AND THE SOCIALIST
CONVERTS ON
HIS
WROTE THAT HE
GREAT DEAL
FROM SOCIALISM
OKLA
FARMERS IN
AND BLACK
PARTY
WON
WAS ONE OF THE
OF HOLDING
SPEAKERS MALE AND
TECHNIQUE
RED DIAPER BABY
15
RED DIRT
14
FEMALE
SMALL
NEAR
USUALLY
TOWNS INDEED
LOCAL
WERE ELECTED AS
RED
FLAGS
WERE HUNG WITH
OF MANY TOWNS
AND THE LAMPPOSTS
THE SOCIALISTS
WERE HELD
MASS ENCAMPMENTS
ALONE 205
LN 1915
OF THE
BUT THEIR PERCENTAGE
STATEWIDE RACE IN OKLAHOMA
NEVER WON
1916
VOTING
IN
TO 16 PERCENT
IN 1907
FROM
PERCENT
VOTE INCREASED
SOCIALIST CAN
THE
1914
IN
CANDIDATE
EUGENE DEBS
SOCIALIST
PARTY
FOR
SEATS
AND THEY WONSIX
21 PERCENT OF THE VOTE
DIDATE FOR GOVERNORWON
IN
OFFICES
LOCAL
WITH
MAJORITY OF
OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURES ALONG
OFFICIALS
THE
IN
BUT
MANY COUNTIES
THERE WAS
IT
OF
LOT
WAS NOT
PEACEFUL
THAT AGAIN
THEM MAGON
THE VALLEY
SURE PUT
SAY
UP
FIGHT
BLACKS
IN SPEAKING OF
TOGETHER IN
UP
EVENT SEPARATE
SPONTANEOUS
TO
RING
EASTERN
RISING
SEMINOLE INDIANS
AND POOR WHITES AND
REFER
WAS
KNOWNOWTHAT DADDY
OKLAHOMA
FROM
IWW OR
DURING THE
SOCIALIST
SUMMER
OF
PARTY
1917
GREEN CORN REBELLION
IN SOUTHEASTERN
WAS PORING AROUND
WHEN
IN DECEMBER 1994
MET AN ELDERLY SEMI
UNDERSTAND THAT REBELLION
OKLAHOMA TRYING TO
NINE
SHE HAD BEEN ONLY
WOMANWHO SAID THAT
NOLE MUSKOGEE INDIAN
WHO
AND THAT HER UNCLE
SHE REMEMBEREDIT
OLD AT THE TIME BUT
YEARS
AND WAS IMPRISONED
LEADER OF THE REBELLION
SHE SAID HAD BEEN
ORGANIZING
THE
THE HEROIC
AFTERWARDS HAD TOLD
THE
GREEN
FULL
CORN
BROTHERS
UP
MOON OF
AND
IT
LATE
AND OVER
STORY OVER
THE
WAS NOT EASY
SISTERS
WHATEVER THE
THEM THAT
UP WE TOLD
TO RISE
TELL
WAY
FOR
THOSE
THE STORY SO THAT
LT
SINCE
CENTURIES
WHO COME AFTER
TAKE
MAY
UP ONCE AGAIN
EVENTUALLY
PREVAIL
AND
CONTINUE
RISE
THE
RISING
STANDING
UP
WOULD INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS
CONSEQUENCES
AND COPIED THAT
WOULD BE REMEMBERED
OUR COURAGE OUR BRAVERY
HAS BEEN THE INDIAN
MOON OF
IT
WAS
JULY EARLY AUGUST
WHITE AND BLACK
TO PERSUADE OUR POOR
AS
IT
THE SIGNIFICANCE
FIGHT
AND
WILL
OR THEIR DESCENDANTS
THAT
THOUSAND YEARS BUT
FIRST
ASKED HER TO EXPLAIN
THE INVASIONS
IS
TURNED OUT THE BLACKS
HOWWE
STRUCK
MY FATHER
MOMENT
SOCIALISTS
SOCIALISTS
VERY
DOUBT
OF UNITY
WHO SCORNED
COURSE
APPEARED IN
MY US
APPEARS IN
OKLAHOMA
FATHERS STORIES
MY
WHEN
MOVED
STUDENT
NOTHING
OKLAHOMA
OR
UP
MOMENT
CITY
AND
TEXTBOOKS
AND
HISTORY
NOWSO
BEGAN
TO
ABOUT THE GREEN CORN REBELLION
AND WAS SWEPT UP IN
TO CALIFORNIA
GREAT
ABOUT WOBBLIES
EVEN
TEXTBOOKS
ESPECIALLY
AS
THE ELECTRICLIGLIT
BY
BETRAYED
OF
IT
1917
IT
THE GREEN CORN REBELLION
PORTRAYED
OF HEROISM
WAS ON AUGUST
CEREMONY THAT WE ROSE
AND EARLY AUGUST
OF JULY
AT THE END OF OUR FOURDAY GREEN CORN
THE SIXTIES
AS
NEW PRIDE IN MY WOBBLYSOCIALIST HERITAGE BUT
CORN REBELLION UNTIL IT REAPPEARED IN MY FIELD
GAINED
NEARLY FORGOT THE GREEN
WAS WORKING ON THE BOOK THE
AT
GREAT SIOUX NATION WHICH GREW OUT OF THE 1973 LAKOTA UPRISING
WOUNDEDKNEE
MUSKOGEE MEDICINE MAN FROM OKLAHOMA THE LATE
OF VISION
IN
WHILE
MID1970S
THE
DEERE TOLD ME STORY IN 1974 THAT SOUNDED FAMILIAR AT FIRST
HE DID NOT NAME THE EVENT BUT DESCRIBED HIS MEMORY OF IT AND WHAT
HE WAS TOLD GROWING UP HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS
PHILIP
MY FATHER
1917
IN
SEARCHED
SION
BUT FOUND VERY
FROM OKLAHOMA
EMILIANO
ZAPATA
BY 1890
THE
AND
BEFORE
WERE DISSOLVED
LITTLE
INFORMATION
INDEED
TRYING
THAT EVEN
FOUND THE TYPESCRIPT
FINALLY
ATE HARVARD UNIVERSITY
RECALLED
REBEL
THE
AND LED
FOR PUBLISHED
CORN REBELLION
YEARS OLD PHILIP
TEN OR ELEVEN
LION AS INDIANCONCEIVED
THESIS
HISTORY
BIOGRAPHER
NOW
SENIOR
THE NATIVE
BY THE 1898
OF
MENTIONED
OF
VER
PHILIPS
VERIFY
THE
GREEN
1959 UNDERGRADU
BY JOHN WOMACK JR HIMSELF
LEADER
MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY
PROFESSOR
AMERICAN
CURTIS
TO
OF HISTORY
REPUBLICS
AT
HARVARD
OF INDIAN
ACT THAT VIOLATED
TERRITORY
TREATIES
WITH
THE
AND FORCED THEIR COMMUNAL HOLDINGS INTO INDIVIDUAL
WHITE
TENANTS HAD ALREADY COME TO OUTNUMBER THE MDI
ALLOTMENTS
ANS TWO TO ONE IN INDIAN
TERRITORY
BREAKING THE LAW VIOLENCE AND
NATIVE
NATIONS
CORRUPTION
WERE THUS
THE
RULE NOT
SETTING THE STAGE FOR AN AGRARIAN
AND
OF THE GREEN CORN CEREMONY
WEEK
LAST
LITTLE
WOBBLIES CUT TELE
AND NOT JUST SHOOTING
SEWERS LT
WATER MAINS AND
PIPELINES
AND DYNAMITED
WIRES
OF THE STATE
PHONE
IN THE EASTERN PART
HERE BUT MAINLY OVER
AROUND
ALL
WAS
IN SAN ANTONE AND
IN IT NEGROES TOO DOWN
THEM SEMINOLE INDIANS
MEXICO BOY THE WOBBLIES
BROTHERS FROM OLD
YOU CAN
ING THE
PROCESS
ASKED DADDY
SHOOTING
MUSKOGEES THAT IS OUR MOST SACRED CEREMONY AND YOU COULD
IT OCCURS WHENEVER
CALL IT OUR NEW YEAR THE TIME OF NEW BEGINNINGS
AS
LATE
JUNE OR AS LATE AS
THE GREEN CORN COMES SOMETIMES AS EARLY
CAME LATE DUR
EARLY AUGUST DURING THAT YEAR 1917 THE GREEN CORN
TO THE
WERE
EVANGELISTS
SOCIALISTS
TO SOCIALISM
THEMSELVES CONVERTS
MANY
TIMES
WERE HARD
THE
EXCEPTION
IN
THAT
REGION
REBELLION
OVER 60
PERCENT
OF MORTGAGED FARRRIS WERE
THE GREEN CORN REBEL
LOST TO FORECLOSURE DURING THE TWO YEARS BEFORE
LION
MORE
THAN
HALF THE
IN
WERE EVEN HIGHER
THE
WERE WORKEDBY TENANTS THE RATES
FARMS
WHERE THE REBELLION
COUNTIES
SOUTHEASTERN
HUGHES AND PONTOTOC COUNTIES
REGION WERE WORKEDBY THEIR OWNERS
TOOK PLACE POTTAWATOMI SEMINOLE
OF THE FARMS IN
FIFTH
ONLY
THAT
AND HALF OF THOSE WERE UNDER HEAVY MORTGAGES THAT CARRIED
IN
FARMING
BORERS
1909
AND
AND
COTTON
THE
COTTON
KING
MAKING OKLAHOMA
1919
WITH TENANTS AS WAGE LA
PRODUCTION DOUBLED BETWEEN
THE
WERE
MAJOR INDUSTRIES
OTHER
MINING WHICH
SPAWNED BOOM TOWNS AND
COTTON
FOURTHLARGEST
PRODUCTION AND COAL
OIL
ATTRACTED LARGE POPULATIONS
WHEN THE
DRAFT SOLDIERS FOR THE
GOVERNMENT BEGAN TO
BLACK
AND
RED
FARMERS
IN SOUTHEASTERN
THE WHITE
DECIDED TO
RESIST
TO RECRUIT
THEIR
CONSCRIPTION
AND SEAL OFF AN AREA FROM OUTSIDE
STRATEGY WAS TO
INTERFERENCE
FIRST
WORLD
OKLAHOMA
COME
TO DESTROY
THE
ING
COULD NOT
WIRES SO THE BESIEGED
IN
CATE PROPERTY
WHO
CALL
FOR
CUT
TRIED
TO STOP
FOUR
PEOPLE ARMIES
IN
WAY
OF OTHER STATES
MARCH ON WASHINGTON WHERE THEY
MOST OF THE US MILITARY
PANCHO VILLA
IN
WOULD
US
WOULDBE JOINED BY
AND THAT THE IWW AND THE
THEY
WOULD THEN
ALREADY
BE IN
TAKE
VICTORIOUS
CONTROL SINCE
EUROPE
OR FIGHTING
MEXICO
DID INDEED
SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTY
WOMACKS ACCOUNT
SET OFF THE REBELLION
THAT
IN
GROUP OF AFRI
EARLY
AUGUST 1917
WERE FIRED ON BY SOME THIRTY BLACK
HUNDREDS OF POOR WHITES AND MUSKOGEE INDIANS
REBELLION
TO
SEVERAL GROUPS
FARM ANIMALS
OF DESTRUCTION
TO
WIRES
TRAMPLE
500
THE
OR
SO
ZONE TO FEAST CELEBRATE AND
WAS
DOWN WHEN FACED
OF LOCAL TOWNSPEOPLE AGAINST
HUGE POSSES
TO
HUNT THEM
THE REBELS DISPERSED
DAYS MORE WIRES WERE
CUT
REBELS WERE CAPTURED PITCHED
AND
BACKLASH AGAINST
OKLAHOMA THE
IN
THE
THE REBELS
DUR
GUERRILLASTYLE
AND
HIT WHILE
BRIDGES
AND
BATTLES TOOK PLACE
WHEN
DIERS
POLITICAL
OKLAHOMA MY
CORE GROUP OF NATIVE
OF EMPIRE
INCHING
BEGAN TURNING
MOVEMENT
FILM
READY APPEARED IN
CAN REVOLUTIONS
MAGAZINES
SWIFTLY
KLUX
EXTOLLING
1915
RED
THE
OKLAHOMA WERE
LEFT
OKLA
OVER THE
ALL
KLAN BURGEONED
CAME
OF THEIR VICTIMS
WHITE AMERICANS THE VERY FOOT SOL
AND
SOCIALIST
EVEN
ANTIIMPERIALIST
THE GOVERNMENT AND OTHER
AND RELENTLESSLY
KKK
THE BIRTH
AFTER THE VICTORIES
SCARE
OF
WOBBLIES AND
AND ARKANSAS AND
WAS ONE
VICIOUSLY
TO
THE REPRESSION
OF
NATION
OF THE RUSSIAN
CEN
THE
CRUSH
THE
AL
MEXI
HAD
AND
FLOODED NEWSPAPERS AND
SERMONS THE LANDLESS AGRARI
PROPAGANDA
AND FORMED THE MAIN
FOR BIG
TEXT OF
WITH
RECOLLECTION
OF HARD TIMES
AND
GOVERNMENT AND FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL BUT ALSO
WITH THE MEMORY OF
REPRESSION
LONG BEFORE
KU
WAVE OF PROPAGANDA ACCOMPANIED
DW GRIFFITH
OF
TEXAS
AWAY FROM WHITE SUPREMACY
OF POWER ACTED
HATRED
GRANDFATHER
WAVE
PRODUCED
ANTIWAR
CROSSES BURNED
FIERY
POWER IN
1917
THE
BLAMED THE REPRESSION IN
SOCIALISTS
GREEN CORN REBELS
KLAN SEIZED
CLOSE IN
ANS
THE EUROPEAN WAR IN
BRUTAL
AND THE RANKS AND RESOURCES OF THE
STATE
TERS
INTO
ENTRANCE
AND
FROM PROFESSOR
CANAMERICANS
THAT THE
TROOPS THEY AGREED THAT ANY LOCAL
THEM WOULD BE MET WITH GUNFIRE AND
BROTHERHOODS WOULD SUPPORT THEM FOR
RAILROAD
LEARNED
THE SAME
ITS
POISONED FOOD AND WELL WATER THEY BELIEVED
THE WORKING
TELEGRAPH
HELP THEY PLANNED TO CONFIS
WAS TO BE CONSCRIPTED
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONSCRIPTED
AUTHORITIES
THEY
DETAILS
OTHERS
HUNDREDS WERE ARRESTED
SOCIALISTS
TOWNS AND ON THE SURROUNDING FARMS ANYONE
THE
WHOOPPOSED THEM
THE REACTION
FOLLOWING
RESTORE TO
STOP THE WAR AND REFORM THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY TO
FOR
THE WORKING CLASSES THE FULL PRODUCT OF THEIR LABOR IN PREPARATION
RIVER
TO
MARCH
BURNED
THE
CANADIAN
THE GREAT
ACROSS
THEY
BRIDGES
AREA ISOLATED
FREE
SUMMER DAY
THEIR NEW LIBERATED
WITH ANGRY ARMED CITIZENS
PATRIOTISM
TELEPHONE AND
AND
LONG
THEY ORGANIZED
TOGETHER
WAY
DOWN FENCES
AFTER
HOWEVER
FIERCE
THE
UP
WILSON
THE
REST
HOMA ON
ING
THEMSELVES INTO
DIVIDED
NOT YET JOINED
AND CUT TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH
BRIDGES
REBELS CONGREGATED IN
BORS TO JOIN AND THEN MARCH ALL THE WAY TO WASHINGTON
PICK
THERE THEY WOULD OVERTHROW PRESIDENT
RECRUITS ALONG THE
KEEP THEIR LIBERATED
RAILROAD
AND OTHERS TO TEAR
PERSUADE THEIR NEIGH
DC
THEY
WHO HAD
ALL
17
BURN BARNS ANOTHER TO BLOW UP THE TEXACO PIPELINE
MORE AND MORE
WORKERS
OF TRANSIENT
WERE WELL ORGANIZED
SOME
PRO
CASHANDCREDIT
ESTABLISHING
ECONOMY THE
REBELS
COTTON FIELDS
TO
DUCER AMONG THE STATES AND FIRMLY
WAR
USURIOUS
200 PERCENT
OKLAHOMA WAS COMMERCIAL
INTEREST RATES OF 20
BABY
RED DIAPER
RED DIRT
16
THE
FAILED MOVEMENT
OKLAHOMA WAS KEPT UNDER
MCCARTHY
ERA AS REPORTED
CAREFUL SURVEILLANCE
BY GEORGE MILBURN
IN
1946
REBELS
WERE INVOLVED
THE
IT
IS
CRIMINAL
OFFENSE
FOR
EXAMPLE IN OKLAHOMA TO HAVE
COPY OF KARL MARXS
RED DIAPER
RED DIRT
18
DAS KAPITAL
LURE
ONS
IN
LIABLE
IS
BEEN PROSECUTED CRIMINALLY
THAN
ILLICIT
MY
REBELS THINNED
AS THE
WAS NO
LONGER
LITERA
HAVE
SENTENCES BECAUSE SOBER
EVEN MORE
ARE
BOOZE
AND THE WOBBLIES
GRANDFATHER
NEW RED
THE
TO BE PROUD OF
OVER WITH
THE FAMILY
RAGE ABOUT OUR
BEING WHITE AND REAL
FOR JUST
PRIDE
GREEN CORN
AND
RED IN
SCARE ESCALATED
SOMETHING
WAS COVERED
POVERTY
AND FACED WITH PENITENTIARY
BOTTLE OF BOOTLEG
SO TALK ABOUT
TREE
SEDITIOUS
AND ARREST INDEED CERTAIN SCHOLARLY CITIZENS
REGARDED AS CLASSICS ELSEWHERE IN OKLAHOMA
TREATISES
POLITICAL
AND ANYONE SUSPECTED OF POSSESSING
LIBRARY
SEARCH SEIZURE
TO
MYSELF GREW
BRIMMED
TEARS
PATRIOTIC
FIERCELY
IN
1954
COUNTY SPEECH CONTEST
GREAT BECAUSE AMERICA
IS
FOR
THE
WATCHING
AVIDLY
ROOTING
IN
PRIZE
IS
GOOD
ARMYMCCARTHY
MCCARTHY ADORING
FATHERS STORIES
FOR
AND MY FATHER
MY
ORIGINAL
SUMMER
THE
SPENT
ON
HEARINGS
ORATION
OF
TELEVISION
DOUBTED
MY
NO LONGER TOLD THE STORIES
WAR SOLD VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS CREPE
DRAFTED AND CAME HOME
PAPER ROSES SEVERAL YOUNG MEN IN TOWN WERE
WOUNDEDONE OF THE BOYS WHORETURNED SAT WITH MY BROTHER AND ME
THE
DURING
KOREAN
AND OUR COUSINS
WHY WERE RICH
AND TOLD US ABOUT KOREA
OKLAHOMA BY COMPARISON
THEYRE
LUCKY TO EAT
HERE IN
SPOONFUL OF RICE
OLD
DAY WE WENT THROUGH THIS ONE LITTLE VILLAGE AND SEEN AN
MAN LOOKED TO BE HUNDRED ALL DRIED UP AND WRINKLED JUST DIED IN
FRONT
US STOPPED TO PAY MY RESPECTS AND AS WAS LOOKING AT HIM
ONCE
WONDERING WHAT HIS LIFE
THING FROM HIS MOUTH
FELT
LUCKY TO BE
FREE
COUNTRY FOR HELPING
TODAY
MY
MUNISTS
AM
WHEN
OF
AND
AND
FOREVER GRATEFUL
ME
IT
FOOT
GIANT
WHITE
LONG AND WE
COMMUNISM
FIGHTING
PROUD OF OUR
HIS FATHER REGRETTED HAVING BEEN
THAT HE HAD BEEN
MINUTE
FOR
MY IDEALISM
STUDENT
MY WOBBLY
FATHER TOLD
COMES THIS
OTHERS
SOCIALIST
WAS
OUT
DAMNED TAPEWORM FIVE
AMERICANS
DONT BELIEVE
FORGET HIS FATHERS
YET
HAD BEEN LIKE
FATHER SAYS HE BELIEVES
WOBBLY AND
STORIES
AS CHILDREN
AND UNTIL
TO TELL HIS STORY FOR AN ORAL HISTORY
DADDY
HEARD THEM FROM DADDY AND
THINK
OF
MY
BROTHER
HANK
GOT
PIEDMONT HE HAD NEVER
HE HADNT BELIEVED
ME BEFORE
DADDY SHOCKED ME RECENTLY WHEN HE TOLD ME ABOUT HOW BRUTALLY
HIS FATHER HAD BEAT HIM AS
HAD NEVER BEFORE HEARD HIM
TEENAGER
UTTER
WORD
ABOUT HIS FATHER BOY IT HURT AND SOME
SINGLE NEGATIVE
TIMES
PUT
ME
IN
BED HE
SEEMS LIKE HE HAD
IT
IN
USED
FOR
COULDNT TAKE
SIXTEEN
IT
ME
NO
WAS ABOUT TWELVE
HORSEWHIP AFTER
AND THATS WHY RUN OFF WHEN TURNED
MORE HE
SAID
TEARS
FILLING
HIS FADING
BLUE EYES
WERE
WHAT REMAINS
THOSE STORIES
MY
THINK
WHICH COULD GET
DURING THE
GRANDFATHER
HOODWINKED BY
RATHER
SIXTIES
MY
IN
COM
HE WANTS TO
ME INTO
CALIFORNIA
TROUBLE
DADDYS
GUIDING LIGHT AND FOR THAT
MYSTERIOUS
OLDER BROTHERS AND
TO
ME
SISTER
IS
WHY MY
CLAIM
NEVER
TO 1923
WHEN THE WOBBLY AND SO
MOVEMENTS WERE BEING CRUSHED AND THE KLAN WAS ON THE RISE
CIALIST
AND
THE FLAG
TO
YOUNG ROY COHN
THE
WHEN
MY EYES
HEARD THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER OR PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE
AMERICA
THEM
19
THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN 1919
AMERICANS
WON FIRST
TO HAVE HEARD
BABY
MY
GRANDFATHER
GRANDPA DUNBAR HAD
DISCIPLE
AND HIS
TAKEN
FAMILY
WERE TARGETS OF
OUT HIS FRUSTRATION
KKK
VIOLENCE
ON HIS MOST DEVOTED