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Posing as the friend of ordinary white farmers, Tillman took over the South Carolina [[Farmers Alliance]], and used the organization as a platform for his political ambitions. He was elected Governor of South Carolina, in 1890, and served from December 1890 to December 1894. He helped establish Clemson College, now Clemson University. When the Alliance in other states moved toward the [[Populist Party]] and its radical "Ocala Demands", Tillman arranged for the South Carolina Democratic Party to adopt the platform, wholesale.  The strategy prevented the development of an independent Populist Party, assuring white control through the dominant, white Democratic Party.

Posing as the friend of ordinary white farmers, Tillman took over the South Carolina [[Farmers Alliance]], and used the organization as a platform for his political ambitions. He was elected Governor of South Carolina, in 1890, and served from December 1890 to December 1894. He helped establish Clemson College, now Clemson University. When the Alliance in other states moved toward the [[Populist Party]] and its radical "Ocala Demands", Tillman arranged for the South Carolina Democratic Party to adopt the platform, wholesale.  The strategy prevented the development of an independent Populist Party, assuring white control through the dominant, white Democratic Party.

Tillman was largely responsible for calling the State constitutional convention, in 1895, that disfranchised almost all of South Carolina's blacks and imposed the [[Jim Crow]] of segregationd and second class status for blacks.  

Tillman was largely responsible for calling the State constitutional convention, in 1895, that disfranchised almost all of South Carolina's blacks and imposed the [[Jim Crow]] of segregation and second class status for blacks.  

==Senator==

==Senator==

==Bibliography==

==Bibliography==

*Burton, Orville Vernon. ''In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina'' (1985) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10585854 online edition]

*Burton, Orville Vernon. ''In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina'' (1985) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10585854 online edition]

*Kantrowitz, Stephen. ''Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/reader/0807848395?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=sib%5Fdp%5Fpt#noop excerpt and text search]; portays him as a terrorist, organizer, tyrant and bully

*Kantrowitz, Stephen. ''Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/reader/0807848395?_encoding=UTF8&ref_=sib%5Fdp%5Fpt#noop excerpt and text search]; portrays him as a terrorist, organizer, tyrant and bully

** Clark, Kathleen. "Who Made Jim Crow?" ''Reviews in American History'' 2001 29(2): 238-246. Issn: 0048-7511 Fulltext: in Project Muse; reviews Kantrowitz book

** Clark, Kathleen. "Who Made Jim Crow?" ''Reviews in American History'' 2001 29(2): 238-246. Issn: 0048-7511 Fulltext: in Project Muse; reviews Kantrowitz book

**/ [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28551971210000 online review by Bruce Palmer]

**/ [http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28551971210000 online review by Bruce Palmer]

[[Category:Progressive Era]]

[[Category:Progressive Era]]

[[Category:South Carolina]]

[[Category:South Carolina]]

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