By Dale Ingram For The Oklahoman
SASAKWA — Nothing among the hot thickets, red-rock ridges and cow paths of the South Canadian River valley today suggests that one of the quirkiest events in Oklahoma history unfolded here in August 1917.
No clue that it left a bitter stain on scores of local families.
No hint that what happened helped change the state's political landscape.
No centennial fanfare is planned for the Green Corn Rebellion, a violent uprising of about 1,000 men — mostly destitute tenant farmers, cotton pickers and moonshiners — to oppose the World War I draft and prevent fighting in a “rich man's war.”
Beginning in 1915, leaders of the Working Class Union (WCU), a cousin of the Socialist Party, had been successful in recruiting poor farmers to its ranks.
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