Greenbackers stage the first March on Washington

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• Debt: The First 5,000 Years whole source · open book

  In 1894, the Greenbackers, who pushed for detaching the dollar from gold entirely to allow the government to spend freely on job-creation campaigns, invented the idea of the March on Washington—an idea that was to have endless resonance in U.S. history.

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