The Grange: A Fraternity of Farmers that Championed Rural America
The Grange: A Fraternity of Farmers that Championed Rural America
Join us as agricultural historian T.J. Malaskee delves into the long-forgotten history of America's first fraternity of farmers, the Grange. The Grange was a radical post-Civil War Era movement that pushed for progressive measures to heal the nation through agriculture, education, equality, and social interaction as the United States saw growing tension between western rural farmers and eastern urban industrialists.