In the presidential election of 1880, Gen. James Baird Weaver made his case for the meaning of their victory in Civil War. Aside from the earlier Republicans, his Greenback-Labor Party represented proportionately the largest third party movement in American history, but its national standing required a vigorous national campaign for the White House. When nominated, he became the first candidate in American history to campaign actively on his own behalf.
The campaign briefly united the efforts of thousands of farmers, workers, women, and African-Americans protesting their betrayal by the Republicans who had ended Reconstruction. Insurgents included moderate liberals disgusted by the corruption of the two-party system, militant socialists, advocates of environmental awareness, vegetarians and spritualists. The 1880 GLP campaign included abolitionists, socialists, land reformers, suffragists and others along with many later active as Populists, Progressives, Nationalists, Social Democrats, anarchists, etc. whose work continued well into the twentieth century.
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