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The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among U. S. farmers that flourished in the 1880s. First formed in 1876 in Lampasas, Texas, the Alliance was designed to promote higher commodity prices through collective action by groups of individual farmers. The movement was strongest in the South and Great Plains, and was widely popular before it was destroyed by the power of commodity brokers. Despite its failure, it is regarded as the precursor to the United States Populist Party, which grew out of the ashes of the Alliance in 1889. Farm Party Supplies - Lycos Shopping has it!.

History

Formation and growth

The Farmers' Alliance grew out of the Grange movement, which formed social organizations among farmers and which had flourished the Midwest and had spread in popularity to the South. Members were known as "Alliancemen". The movement comprised two separate organizations: the National Farmers' Alliance (Northern Alliance) in the Great Plains states, and the National Farmers' Alliance & Industrial Union (Southern Alliance) centered in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. In the South Alliance included separate "Colored Alliance” chapters for African-American farmers, but overall, it was arguably the only biracial organization at the time in the South.

The Alliance was formed in response to monetary deflation and falling commodity prices after the American Civil War.