with Rachel Jackson, researcher of radical Oklahoma history at the University of Oklahoma.
The Green Corn Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in rural Oklahoma on August 2 and 3, 1917. The uprising was a reaction by radicalized European-Americans, tenant farmers, Seminoles, Muscogee Creeks and African-Americans to an attempt to enforce the Selective Draft Act of 1917. They formed a militia and planned to march to Washington, D.C. to overthrow the government, eating “green corn” as they went.