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Friend and foe alike–and generations of historians–interpreted Tillman’s physical and rhetorical violence in defense of white supremacy as a matter of racial and gender instinct. This book instead reveals that Tillman’s white supremacy was a political program and social argument whose legacies continue to shape American life.
Dec 1, 2006 · The Act is named for Senator Benjamin Ryan “Pitchfork Ben” Tillman (1847-1918) (D- SC), one of the most despicable men ever to serve in the U.S. Senate and a man who, it can fairly be said, did more to put in place the Jim Crow system in the South than any other single person. As a young man coming of age in the post-War South, Tillman was ...
Excerpts. [Tillman begins his speech delivered the day after the Senate ratified the treaty ending the Spanish-American War by arguing against waging a full-scale war in the Philippines which the U.S. had acquired in the treaty. He proceeds to discuss Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The White Man’s Burden,” which had appeared in the February ...
In Ben Tillman's world, white men had to take up arms against such threats. In theory, the inculcation of "the sturdy virtues of the soldier" provided "a strong guaranty against the effeminate influences of an easy life, and the erect and manly discipline of military life elevates the character and pride of a man."
Jan 16, 2007 · The current rage in Washington is to limit speech to citizens under the guise of lobbying reform. They call it restrictions on "astroturf lobbying," never mind that citizens are neither inauthentic nor lobbyists. We can learn a thing or two about the regulation of "astroturf lobbying" from the life and times of Pitchfork Ben Tillman, the racist South Carolina Senator who is today the Forgotten ...
Jun 17, 2020 · Ben Tillman was a rival to Wade Hampton and the aristocratic elite of the Lowcountry and Columbia. He was also a violent white supremacist. ... Later in the speech, he details exactly how they ...
Jan 26, 2008 · Andrea Seabrook talks with University of South Carolina historian Lacy Ford about the legacy of Tillman, who was the state's governor in the early 1890s and a U.S. senator until his death in 1918 ...
