...State of South Carolina ... 1 895 (Columbia, 1895), p. 469. While in the US Senate Tiilman declared, "We have done our level best We have scratched our...last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it." Richard Maxwell Brown, Strain of Violence: Historical Studies of American...

...before they will learn their place again." And here is Tillman on voting rights for African Americans: "We have done our level best. We have scratched our...last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it." State capitols are public buildings maintained by and intended for...

...position, Tillman would later state: "We have done our level best [to prevent blacks from voting]. . . . We have scratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it."86 In other...