Benjamin Tillman
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Benjamin Ryan Tillman was an American Democratic Party politician who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white
Tillman in c. 1910
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Harper's Weekly cartoon decrying the Hamburg massacre
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Red Shirts (United States)
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The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist paramilitary terror groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Re
Benjamin Tillman
…States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. 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…
Red Shirts at a polling place in Old Hundred, North Carolina, on Election Day, November 8, 1898
"Red Shirt" uniform displayed, at the North Carolina Museum of History, circa 1898–1900
Red Shirts in Laurinburg on election day, 1898