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The Red Shirts disrupted Republican rallies, intimidated or assassinated black leaders, and discouraged and suppressed black voting at the polls. Men wearing red shirts appeared in Charleston, South Carolina, on August 25, 1876, during a Democratic torchlight parade.
A white supremacist who opposed civil rights for black Americans, Tillman led a paramilitary group of Red Shirts during South Carolina's violent 1876 election. On the floor of the U.S. Senate, he defended lynching, and frequently ridiculed black Americans in his speeches, boasting of having helped kill them during that campaign. [1]
The men in the Hamburg Company militia were entirely black and mostly freedmen.A white supremacist group called the Red Shirts, led by Benjamin Tillman, who later went on serve a 24-year career in the United States Senate and whose term was marked by enacting racist legislation, instigated confrontations with the black citizens by claiming that said freedmen intentionally blocked passage of ...
Hurrah for Hampton!: Black Red Shirts in South Carolina during Reconstruction. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-541-1. Edgar, Walter (1998). South Carolina A History. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1-57003-255-6. Reynolds, John S. (1969). Reconstruction in South Carolina. Negro University Press. ISBN 0-8371-1638-4.
Red Shirt (Oglala Lakota: Ógle Ša in Standard Lakota Orthography) (c. 1847 – January 4, 1925) was an Oglala Lakota chief, warrior and statesman. Red Shirt supported Crazy Horse during the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 and the Ghost Dance Movement of 1890, and was a Lakota delegate to Washington in 1880. Red Shirt surrendered with Crazy Horse ...
Green Shirt Guy, whose real name is Alex Kack, is an activist and comedian who went viral for his reaction to a pair of Trump supporters at a city council meeting in Tucson, Ariz., Tuesday. Scene ...
Red Shirts (Mexico), a Mexican anti-Catholic paramilitary organization of the 1930s; Abahlali baseMjondolo or Red shirts, a South African shack-dwellers' movement; The red shirts scandal, an Australian political scandal that involved the Victorian Labor Party; Red Shirts (Taiwan) or Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go
Red Shirt protesters confront the military on Pracha Songkhro Road, Bangkok, 13 April 2009. A series of political demonstrations and following unrest occurred in Thailand from 26 March to 14 April 2009 in Bangkok and Pattaya against the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva and the military crackdown that followed. Up to 100,000 people demonstrated ...