A Populist Assault: Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery on American Democracy, 1862-1895Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1982 - 146 pages Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, a Michigan woman transplanted from the Finger Lakes region of New York, was for many years a voice for Populism in the late 19th century. Emery was a woman who believed and acted on her beliefs that freedom and the flowering of the human potential should not five way to the demands of the "money power." |
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... newspaper account , " he said that it was too early yet to form an estimate of Mrs. Emery's character , but that the impression he had gained of her was that of strength - strength of mind , strength in work , strength in death . The ...
... newspaper account , " he said that it was too early yet to form an estimate of Mrs. Emery's character , but that the impression he had gained of her was that of strength - strength of mind , strength in work , strength in death . The ...
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... newspapers . Seven Financial Conspiracies , published in 1887 , with later editions in 1892 and 1894 and numerous ... newspaper , The Corner Stone , that she and her husband published in Lansing , Michigan . From the letters to the ...
... newspapers . Seven Financial Conspiracies , published in 1887 , with later editions in 1892 and 1894 and numerous ... newspaper , The Corner Stone , that she and her husband published in Lansing , Michigan . From the letters to the ...
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... newspaper article was found in a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in the archives of the Unitarian - Universalist Church of Greater Lansing . The name and date of the newspaper are missing . Unfortunately , the State Library , the only ...
... newspaper article was found in a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in the archives of the Unitarian - Universalist Church of Greater Lansing . The name and date of the newspaper are missing . Unfortunately , the State Library , the only ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The Person in Her Time and Place | 7 |
Her Assault on the Economic Order | 31 |
Copyright | |
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