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This is a list of vigilantes featured in popular culture and entertainment media. For commentary, see the main vigilante article. Film. 1920 - 1980. The ...
There emerged the only major vigilante movement in colonial America. The term "vigilante" was not yet in use, and the acitivists called themselves "regulators." The poor farmers bitterly resented the overpaid corrupt local officials appointed by a distant elite, By 1768 the decentralized movement was highly popular in the backcountry.
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Vigilantism. The "Bald Knobbers", an 1880s vigilante group from Missouri – as portrayed in the 1919 film The Shepherd of the Hills. Vigilantism (/ vɪdʒɪˈlæntɪzəm /) is the act of preventing, investigating, and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority. [1][2] A vigilante is a person who practices or partakes in ...
Nazi hunters in popular culture (3 C, 3 P) T. ... Pages in category "Vigilantes in popular culture" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851. The catalyst for its formation was the criminality of the Sydney Ducks gang. [1] It was revived in 1856 in response to rampant crime and corruption in the municipal government of San Francisco, California. The explosive population growth following the discovery of ...
Studies in Popular Culture (2001): 65-77. in JSTOR; Hernando, Matthew J. The Bald Knobbers of Southwest Missouri, 1885-1889: A Study of Vigilante Justice in the Ozarks (PhD dissertation Louisiana Tech University, 2011) online; Hernando, Matthew J. Faces Like Devils: The Bald Knobber Vigilantes in the Ozarks (University of Missouri Press, 2015 ...
Montana Vigilantes. The history of vigilante justice and the Montana Vigilantes began in 1863 in what was at the time a remote part of eastern Idaho Territory. Vigilante activities continued, although somewhat sporadically, through the Montana Territorial period until the territory became the state of Montana on November 8, 1889.