The
Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian
economic movement among
American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875. The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the
National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the
South, the
National Farmers' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the
Midwest and
High Plains, where the
Granger movement had been strong, and the
Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, consisting of the
African American farmers of the South.