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[[File:Bilbo.png|right|250px|thumb|Theodore Bilbo]]

[[File:Bilbo.png|right|250px|thumb|Theodore Bilbo]]

'''Theodore Gilmore Bilbo''' was a [[Democrat]] [[Senator]] and [[Klansman]] from [[Mississippi]].  Bilbo served as a governor of Mississippi from 1916 to 1920 and 1928 to 1932, and as a U.S. senator from 1935 to 1947. A towering figure among [[white supremacist]] and [[segregation]]ist politicians, Bilbo praised [[Nazi]] racial philosophy and was famous for his extreme and inflammatory rhetoric. In a 1938 filibuster against anti-[[lynching]] legislation, Bilbo said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]” by encouraging [[Black]] men to rape white women.

'''Theodore Gilmore Bilbo''' (October 13, 1877 – August 21, 1947) was a [[Democrat]] [[Senator]] and [[Klansman]] from [[Mississippi]].  Bilbo served as a governor of Mississippi from 1916 to 1920 and 1928 to 1932, and as a U.S. senator from 1935 to 1947. A towering figure among [[white supremacist]] and [[segregation]]ist politicians, Bilbo praised [[Nazi]] racial philosophy and was famous for his extreme and inflammatory rhetoric. In a 1938 filibuster against anti-[[lynching]] legislation, Bilbo said on the [[Senate]] floor that the bill would “open the floodgates of [[hell]] in [[the South]]” by encouraging [[Black]] men to rape white women.

Bilbo was a leader among other [[racist]] Democrats, such as the [[Exalted Cyclops]] [[Robert Byrd]] and [[President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], the latter of which called him "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> He claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the [[New Deal]]."<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref>

Bilbo was a leader among other [[racist]] Democrats, such as the [[Exalted Cyclops]] [[Robert Byrd]] and [[President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], the latter of which called him "a real friend of [[liberal]] [[government]]."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-deal-democrats-republican-party/ ''National Review''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref> He claimed himself to be "100 percent for Roosevelt...and the [[New Deal]]."<ref>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/a-history-of-liberal-white-racism-cont/275129/ ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved September 14th, 2020.</ref>

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