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Tillman's influence on South Carolina political leaders has long survived him. While a young congressman, James F. Byrnes, who would become U.S. senator, Supreme Court justice, secretary of state and governor of South Carolina, became a protégé of Senator Tillman.
Jun 28, 2016 · Tillman’s most important contribution to South Carolina’s political life came with the Constitutional Convention of 1895. Tillman argued that only a revision of the laws regarding electoral qualification could safeguard the state from a potential black Republican resurgence.
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A white supremacist who opposed civil rights for black Americans, Tillman led a paramilitary group of Red Shirts during South Carolina's violent 1876 election. On the floor of the U.S. Senate, he defended lynching, and frequently ridiculed black Americans in his speeches, boasting of having helped kill them during that campaign. [1]
Jun 17, 2020 · 0:26. COLUMBIA – The marchers stood where they could see and be seen as speakers took the microphone to demand police reform from the Statehouse's steps. They listened from the raised...
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Tillman accomplished a political revolution in South Carolina when he defeated Governor Wade Hampton and the old guard Bourbons who had run the state since the end of Reconstruction. Tillman and his movement aimed to expand the political control of the state to lower- and middle-class people at the expense of the state’s former leaders and ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Ben Tillman, U.S. populist politician who championed agrarian reform and white supremacy. He served as governor of South Carolina (1890–94) and in the U.S. Senate (1895–1918) and helped found Clemson University. An unabashed racist, he was a member of the terrorist white supremacist Red Shirts.
South Carolina's politics fell somewhat short of the Jacksonian ideal of rough parity among adult white men. In most slave states, politics were substantially shaped by...
