The constant comparisons to Hitler or Putin or Mussolini are inadvertent cop-outs: As if Trump is such an aberration that his ...

Mississippi’s Theodore (“The Man”) Bilbo arosein the Senate one day last week to display a bulky petition. It bore,said he, the names of 2,500,000 U. S. Negroes who would prefer to live in ...

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A politician involved in his share of scandals was Bilbo, who despite being 5-foot-2, referred to himself as "The Man." In 1910, he took a $645 bribe as a state lawmaker — only to claim he did ...

It was Jan. 3, 1947 and Taylor, Idaho’s senior U.S. Senator — a progressive Democrat from Pocatello who historians say may be the state’s most liberal politician to date — opposed Bilbo ...

In spite of the fact that Senator Harrison got Bilbo a $6,000 job in Washington when that undersized politician was down & out of office, and in spite of favors he did Bilbo after his election to ...

A vitriolic attack on Jews and Negroes was made today by Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi in a three-hour filibuster against FEPC appropriations, during which he warned of a “revolution in ...

Senator Theodore Bilbo (Dem.-Miss.) today assailed Jewish support of President Roosevelt’s Fair Employment Practice Committee. Bilbo’s attack was made prior to refusal by the Senate – by a ...

In 1946, Ellender vigorously defended Sen. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi during Senate hearings on Bilbo’s attempts to thwart Black people from voting, including public statements deemed as ...