LINKS:Sponsor: Early Impact VirginiaLearn more about Jackleg MediaThis week, Michael is joined by Steve Babson, a labor educator and author of Forgotten Populists: When Farmers Turned Left to Save Democracy. The book explores a forgotten chapter of history--the 1890s, before the era of Jim Crowe, when Black and white farmers allied under the mantle of "populists"--fighting to expand democracy and resist the robber barons of the era.