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Table of Content
ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1. The Man for Office Is Cole Blease 2. Bleasism in Decline, 1924-1930 3. Searching for Answers to the Great Depression 4. We the People of the U.S.A.: New Deal Americanism on the Mill Hills 5. Mr. Roosevelt Ain't Going to Stand for This: New Deal Battles, 1933-1934 6. The General Textile Strike, September 1934 7. The Enthronement of Textile Labor: The 1934 Governor's Race 8. When Votes Don't Add Up: Olin D. Johnston and the Workers' Compensation Act, 1935-1937 9. Fighting for the Right to Strike, 1935-1936 10. They Don't Like Us Because We're Lintheads: The Highway Fight, 1935-1937 11. The Carpetbaggers Are Coming: The 1938 Senate Race 12. The New Politics of Race, 1938-1948 ConclusionAppendix Notes Bibliography IndexIllustrations A mill house in Graniteville in the mid-1930s An overview of a mill village in Newberry, ca. 1910 "The mill" in Graniteville, 1935 A lynching in the South Carolina upcountry before World War I A stump meeting in Walterboro, 1946 A Blease campaign poster, probably from 1914 National Guardsmen prying open a picket line of company loyalists in Greenville, 1934 Millhands comforting a UTW member wounded in picket-line violence, September 1934 Children playing with National Guardsmen at the Woodside Mills, Greenville, during the General Textile Strike Cartoon: "Weekly Newsmap of South Carolina," September 1934 Olin D. Johnston chatting with another politician, 1943 "Cotton Ed" Smith and wife shaking hands with voters, 1944Maps 1. South Carolina Counties, 1929 2. Textile Spindleage in South Carolina, by County, 1929Tables 3.1 Population of Spartanburg County, Selected Years, 1900-1940 3.2 Population of Mill Village in Spartanburg County, 1925 and 1937 A.1 Percentage of Vote for Coleman L. Blease versus James F. Byrnes, U.S. Senate Runoff, 1924 A.2 Percentage of Vote for Coleman L. Blease versus James F. Byrnes, U.S. Senate Runoff, 1930 A.3 Percentage of Vote for Olin D. Johnston versus Ibra C. Blackwood, Gubernatorial Runoff, 1930 A.4 Percentage of Vote for Olin D. Johnston versus Ibra C. Blackwood, Gubernatorial Runoff, 1934 A.5 Percentage of Vote for Olin D. Johnston versus Ellison D. Smith, U.S. Senate Runoff, 1938 A.6 Annual Earnings of South Carolina Textile Workers, 1909-1937
