Benjamin Harvey Hill
Benjamin Harvey Hill was a politician whose "flamboyant opposition" to Congressional Reconstruction is credited with helping inaugurate Georgia's Ku Klux Klan. His famous "brush arbor speech" in Atlanta on July 23, 1868, called for the use of violence against the governor, the legislature, and freed people. His career spanned state and national politics, and the Civil War.
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- Born in
- Jasper County
- Educated at
- University of Georgia
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1823
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Birth1882
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