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In 1946, after four white men beat a Black Army veteran for attempting to register to vote, Senator Bilbo delivered a radio address urging every “red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2nd primary.” He continued, “And if you don’t know what that means, you are just not up on your persuasive measures.” Southern senators successfully defended Bilbo against an [[NAACP]]-led effort to remove him from office for inciting violence against Black voters. Despite having been re-elected, he was blocked from taking office.<ref name=pdf/>

In 1946, after four white men beat a Black Army veteran for attempting to register to vote, Senator Bilbo delivered a radio address urging every “red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2nd primary.” He continued, “And if you don’t know what that means, you are just not up on your persuasive measures.” Southern senators successfully defended Bilbo against an [[NAACP]]-led effort to remove him from office for inciting violence against Black voters. Despite having been re-elected, he was blocked from taking office.<ref name=pdf/>

Before succumbing to cancer at age 69, Bilbo spent the last weeks of his life writing a book, ''Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization'', in which he outlined his fears of “race-mixing” and advocated for the relocation of [[African American]]s to [[West Africa]]. (He had proposed a relocation bill in the Senate in 1938, but it failed.) Bilbo never repudiated his racist views and remained an influential figure among leading segregationists in the South long after his death.

Before succumbing to oral cancer at age 69 following decades of spouting hatred, bigotry, and inciting violence, Bilbo spent the last weeks of his life writing a book, ''Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization'', in which he outlined his fears of “race-mixing” and advocated for the relocation of [[African American]]s to [[West Africa]]. (He had proposed a relocation bill in the Senate in 1938, but it failed.) Bilbo never repudiated his racist views and remained an influential figure among leading segregationists in the South long after his death.

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