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Jul 14, 2020 · July 14, 20203:59 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. 8-Minute Listen. Playlist. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stephen Kantrowitz, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,...
Tillman, Benjamin “Pitchfork” 1847–1918. Benjamin Ryan (“Pitchfork Ben”) Tillman was born into a wealthy slaveholding family in the plantation district of Edge-field, South Carolina, on August 11, 1847. He served with a murderous paramilitary unit, agitated for agricultural reform, and was elected to two terms as South Carolina ’s ...
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.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman was a politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. 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.
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May 29, 2018 · Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918), an American statesman for the South and a demagogue, was known as "Pitchfork Ben." His political campaigns on behalf of poor whites gave direction to a new generation of Southern activists who reorganized post-Reconstruction politics and society.
Feb 19, 2015 · Benjamin Tillman was a senator from South Carolina in the 1890s and one of Clemson University's founders. He also happened to be a raging, notorious white supremacist.
Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) A Democratic senator for South Carolina during the War of 1898, Benjamin Tillman was one of the most vocal and powerful members of a substantial racist faction of the Anti-Imperialist League (AIL).
