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Tillman was known as "Pitchfork Ben" because of his aggressive language, as when he threatened to use a pitchfork to prod that "bag of beef", President Grover Cleveland. Considered a possible candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 1896 , Tillman lost any chance after giving a disastrous speech at the convention .
"Maximum Battleship" Design no.1. The "Maximum battleships," also known as the "Tillman battleships," were a series of World War I-era design studies for extremely large battleships, prepared in late 1916 and early 1917 upon the order of Senator "Pitchfork" Benjamin Tillman [1] by the Bureau of Construction and Repair (C&R) of the United States Navy. [2]
The men in the Hamburg Company militia were entirely black and mostly freedmen.A white supremacist group called the Red Shirts, led by Benjamin Tillman, who later went on serve a 24-year career in the United States Senate and whose term was marked by enacting racist legislation, instigated confrontations with the black citizens by claiming that said freedmen intentionally blocked passage of ...
Ben “Pitchfork” Tillman, the leader of the Hamburg Massacre, was eventually elected governor. At his inauguration, he bragged that “I, as the exponent and leader of the revolution which ...
In response, Populist leaders, such as Thomas E. Watson from Georgia, Benjamin “Pitchfork” Tillman from South Carolina, and K. Vardaman from Mississippi, not only yielded to the Democrats’ demands but also became fervent race baiters, which contributed to the efforts that nearly eliminated the black vote in the South.This disappointing ...
Commentary by Fresno writer Daniel O. Jamison on the national experiment that is American democracy.
On Sept. 4, 1868, Georgia state Rep. R.W. Phillips stood before the legislature and publicly called for a mob to The post In this country, mobs rule appeared first on TheGrio.
The system was the brainchild of Governor Benjamin Tillman, a farmer from Edgefield known as "Pitchfork Ben," who served as governor from 1890 to 1894 and as a U.S. Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918.