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Book/Printed Material The race problem : speech of Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina ... in the Senate of the United States, February 23-24, 1903

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Title

  • The race problem : speech of Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina ... in the Senate of the United States, February 23-24, 1903

Summary

  • Tillman, a white senator from South Carolina, speaks for political control in the South by southern whites in the face of the mass of "ignorant" African American masses, who constitute a majority in many areas and in some states. He also questions the grant of the franchise to African Americans, and specifically protests Republican patronage appointments in the South.

Names

  • Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918
  • Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : [s.n.], 1903.

Headings

  • -  African Americans--Civil rights
  • -  United States--Race relations

Genre

  • Addresses--Washington (D.C.)--1903

Notes

  • -  LC copy imperfect: torn at top of p. 31-32, pagination missing; pages torn and text missing from bottoms and outer margins of several pages.

Medium

  • 30, [2] p. ; 21 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E449 .D16 vol. 24, no. 19

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 91898597

Online Format

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  • online text
  • pdf

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Tillman, Benjamin R, and Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection. The race problem: speech of Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina ... in the Senate of the United States, February 23-24. [Washington, D.C.: s.n, 1903] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/91898597/.

APA citation style:

Tillman, B. R. & Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection. (1903) The race problem: speech of Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina ... in the Senate of the United States, February 23-24. [Washington, D.C.: s.n] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/91898597/.

MLA citation style:

Tillman, Benjamin R, and Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection. The race problem: speech of Hon. Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina ... in the Senate of the United States, February 23-24. [Washington, D.C.: s.n, 1903] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/91898597/>.