No legislation was filed in South Carolina’s House or Senate to remove Benjamin Tillman’s name from the most prominent building on Clemson University's campus.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stephen Kantrowitz, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about who Ben Tillman was and why his statues appear all over South Carolina.

Clemson University releases statement against Benjamin Tillman Tillman Hall name change “not on the table” according to Clemson Board of Trustees member David Wilkins ...

As the Confederate flag was lowered for the last time, the bronze statue of Gov. Benjamin Tillman watched disapprovingly from its still-prominent place on the State House grounds. While he ...

While Clemson University waits for the state Legislature's permission to remove former SC governor and self-avowed white supremacist Benjamin "Pitchfork" Tillman's name from an on-campus building ...

The news comes after Clemson University asked the state Legislature to allow it to rename Tillman Hall to Old Main, which was its name prior to 1946.

Someone painted “violent racist” Thursday morning on a portrait of former governor Benjamin Tillman in Winthrop’s Tillman Hall in Rock Hill, SC. No arrests have been made. This comes just ...

Benjamin Tillman was a senator from South Carolina in the 1890s and one of Clemson University's founders. He also happened to be a raging, notorious white supremacist.

ORANGEBURG -- Benjamin Tillman Turner, Jr., 88, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, March 14, 2024 at White Oak Manor in Newberry.

Benjamin Tillman did everything the law allowed — and many things it prohibited — to preserve the mindset and culture of slavery after the institution had been outlawed through bloody civil war.

Benjamin Tillman was a post-Civil War politician, racial demagogue, and participant in racial violence who was critical to Clemson University’s founding in the late-nineteenth century.