Did you know that clemson's founder, Ben Tillman....

[saw this on another site]

List of things Ben Tillman did:

- Rose to power by leading the Hamburg Massacre, an event in which white supremacists raided a mostly black town and killed a number of black men.

- Called the Constitutional Convention in 1895 that disenfranchised black voters until the Civil Rights movement.

- Created Clemson by taking funding away from the University of South Carolina. He did this because South Carolina only represented the "elite" upper-class in the state and had allowed black people to attend school during Reconstruction. This nearly destroyed the University.

- Pandered exclusively to poor farmers in the upstate. This was his power-base, and was the reason why he created Clemson.

- Initiated economic policies that suppressed business and banking in the state. This set the state back economically and it has never fully recovered.

- Outspoken proponent of White Supremacy and Lynching.

- Assaulted another South Carolina Senator during his time in the Senate. This led to him being censured. He was also barred from the White House.