Red Shirts (Southern United States) | Wikipedia audio article
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Red Shirts (Southern United States)


00:01:35 1 Origins and symbolism
00:03:30 2 South Carolina Red Shirts
00:06:49 3 North Carolina Red Shirts
00:09:48 3.1 Rise of the group
00:11:44 3.1.1 Election of 1898
00:13:22 3.1.1.1 Before the election
00:14:14 3.1.1.2 Election day
00:14:52 3.1.2 Election of 1900
00:15:01 3.1.2.1 Before the election
00:17:07 3.1.2.2 Election day
00:18:07 4 Contemporary South Carolina Red Shirts
00:19:12 5 See also
00:19:40 6 Notes
00:19:48 7 Further reading
00:19:57 7.1 Books and pamphlets
00:21:45 7.2 Journal and newspaper articles



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The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist paramilitary groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years and after the end of the Reconstruction era of the United States. Red Shirt groups originated in Mississippi in 1875, when Democratic Party private terror units adopted red shirts to make themselves more visible and threatening to Southern Republicans, both whites and freedmen. Similar groups in the Carolinas also adopted red shirts.
Among the most prominent Red Shirts were the supporters of Democratic Party candidate Wade Hampton during the campaigns for the South Carolina gubernatorial elections of 1876 and 1878. The Red Shirts were one of several paramilitary organizations, such as the White League in Louisiana, arising from the continuing efforts of white Democrats to regain political power in the South in the 1870s. These groups acted as "the military arm of the Democratic Party."While sometimes engaging in violent acts of terrorism, the Red Shirts, the White League, rifle clubs, and similar groups in the late nineteenth century worked openly and were better organized than the secret vigilante groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. They used organization, intimidation and force to achieve political purposes of restoring the Democrats to power, overturning Republicans, and repressing civil and voting rights of freedmen. During the 1876, 1898 and 1900 campaigns in North Carolina, the Red Shirts played prominent roles in intimidating non-Democratic Party voters.