Author: Gambrell Austin HobbsPublisher:
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Bilbo, Brewer, and Bribery in Mississippi Politics
Author: Gambrell Austin HobbsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Theodore G. Bilbo and Mississippi Politics, 1877-1932
Author: Larry Thomas BalsamoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Investigation by the Senate of the State of Mississippi of the Charges of Bribery in the Election of a United States Senator
Author: Mississippi. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
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Category : Bribery
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Investigation by the Senate of the State of Mississippi of the Charges of Bribery in the Election of a United States Senator
Author: Mississippi. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bribery
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Investigation by the Senate of the State of Mississippi of the Charges of Bribery in the Election of a United States Senator [T.G. Bilbo]
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Author: Mississippi. General Assembly. SenatePublisher:
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Category : Trials (Bribery)
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Mississippi Politics in the Progressive Era, 1904-1920
Author: Charles Granville HamiltonPublisher:
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 780
Book Description
Redneck Liberal
Author: Chester M. MorganPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807124321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
“Theodore Glimore Bilbo was, is, and evermore shall be God or Satan. He dwelled—dwells— in heaven or hell, but never in limbo.” So wrote A. Wigfall Green almost a quarter of a century ago, and so remains the popular perception of this colorful and controversial symbol of a faded era, though current opinion would tip the scales heavily in favor of the satanic and hellish. Theodore Bilbo is remembered almost exclusively as the archangel of white supremacy. His reputation as perhaps the vilest purveyor of racist rhetoric is richly deserved in light of his vehement opposition to the black civil rights movement that emerged during the last years of his career as United States senator from Mississippi. Yet, as Chester Morgan demonstrates in Redneck Liberal, the conventional image of Bilbo as merely a racist demagogue paints only half the picture. Bilbo served a full term in the Senate (1934-1940) before his political career was consumed by racism, and it is that period that is the focus of this study by Morgan. Bilbo’s first term in the Senate coincided with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. Morgan provides a thorough treatment of Bilbo’s activities in Washington and his large role in Mississippi politics. In the Senate Bilbo consistently gave strong support to virtually all New Deal social and economic programs, such as relief for the unemployed, social security, public housing, and fair labor standards, while at the same time championing the cause of the nation’s small farmers in every way he could. His crude and often repulsive style may have antagonized the more sophisticated liberal academics and bureaucrats of the time, but his first-term voting record would have been the envy of any urban New Dealer. Morgan’s early chapters provide background on Bilbo’s long career prior to his election to the Senate (he served twice as governor of Mississippi, for instance) and also on the main trends in Mississippi politics from Reconstruction to the 1930s. An epilogue seeks to explain the well-known, virulently racist attitude of his final years. Throughout the book Morgan manages to capture the flamboyance of Bilbo’s personality and the vitality and intricacy of Mississippi politics. Redneck Liberal—only the second book on Bilbo ever to be published—draws heavily on Bilbo’s personal correspondence, the papers of Franklin Roosevelt, and other primary sources.
The Public Career of Theodore G. Bilbo
Author: Bobby Wade SaucierPublisher:
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Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Speeches of Hon. Theodore G. Bilbo of Mississippi in the Senate of the United States, January 30, 31, and February 7, 1946
Author: Theodore Gilmore BilboPublisher:
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Category : Cloture
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Revolt of the Rednecks
Author: Albert D. KirwanPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813150736
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
In post-Civil War years agriculture in Mississippi, as elsewhere, was in a depressed condition. The price of cotton steadily declined, and the farmer was hard put to meet the payments on his mortgage. At the same time the corporate and banking interests of the state seemed to prosper. There were reasons for this beyond the ken of the poor hill farmer -- the redneck, as he was popularly termed. But the redneck came to regard this situation -- chronic depression for him while his mercantile neighbor prospered -- as a conspiracy against him, a conspiracy which was aided and abetted by the leaders of his party. Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics 1876--1925 is a study of the struggle of the redneck to gain control of the Democratic Party in orger to effect reforms which would improve his lot. He was to be led into many bypaths and sluggish streams before he was to realize his aim in the election of Vardaman to the governorship in 1903. For almost two decades thereafter the rednecks were to hold undisputed control of the state government. The period was marked by many reforms and by some improvement in the economic plight of the farmer -- an improvement largely owing to factors which were uninfluenced by state politics. The period closes in 1925 with the repudiation and defeat at the polls of the farmers' trusted leaders, Vardaman and Bilbo.
