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
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
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
Red Shirts (United States)
…local Redshirts like James B. Morrison won political office, further cementing democratic rule. Future South Carolina Democratic politicians, such as Benjamin Tillman and Ellison D. Smith, proudly claimed their association in their youth with the Red Shirts as a bona fide for white supremacy. Red Shirts were active…
Tillman in c. 1910
Martin Witherspoon Gary
Harper's Weekly cartoon decrying the Hamburg massacre
Wade Hampton III