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Before the New Deal -- The New Deal comes to South Dakota and the nation -- Work for the unemployed, food for the hungry -- Building public projects: the PWA and the CCC -- Berry's second term and the second New Deal -- A New Deal for minorities and youth -- Developing the Black Hills -- Republicans administer the WPA in South Dakota -- The third New Deal and the preparation for war -- Conclusion

Until recently, American legal historiography focused almost solely on national government. Although much of Kansas law reflects U.S. law, the state court's arbitrary powers over labor-management conflicts, yellow dog contracts, civil rights, gender issues, and domestic relations set precedents that reverberated around the country. Sunflower Justice is a pioneering work that presents the history of a state through the use of its supreme court decisions as evidence. R. Alton Lee traces Kansas's legal history through 150 years of records, shedding light on the state'

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter One: The Wild West -- Chapter Two: Promoting Public Health -- Chapter Three: Confronting the Great White Scourge -- Chapter Four: Improving Child Health -- Chapter Five: Fighting the Great War at Home -- Chapter Six: The Civilized East -- Chapter Seven: Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

While predominantly agrarian, Kansas has a surprisingly rich heritage of labor history and played an active role in the major labor strife of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Farmers vs. Wage Earners is a survey of the organized labor movement in the Sunflower State, which reflected in a microcosm the evolution of attitudes toward labor in the United States. R. Alton Lee emphasizes the social and political developments of labor in Kansas and what it was like to work in the mines, the oil fields, and the factories that created the modern industrial world. He vividly describes the stories of working people: how they and their families lived and worked, their dreams and aspirations, their reasons for joining a union and how it served their interests, how they fought to achieve their goals through the political process, and how employment changed over the decades in terms of race, gender, and working conditions. The general public supported labor after the Civil War, but increasing urbanization and the farmer-dominated legislatures helped quell this sympathy, and new ire was eventually directed at the workingman. By examining the progress of industrial labor in an agrarian state, Lee shows how Kansans, like many Americans, could eagerly accept the federal largesse of the New Deal but at the same time bitterly denounce its philosophy and goals in the wake of the Great Depression.

Lee reviews 'The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Towards Decentralist Thought in Twentieth Century America' by Allan Carlson.

'A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh' by Kenneth J. Heineman is reviewed.

"'When Sunflowers Bloomed Red' offers readers entry into the Kansas radical tradition and shows how the Great Plains' agrarian movement transformed and coalesced with socialist and syndicalist political movements to influence politics and culture in the twentieth century"--