Complex sentence: Beeby 2008 Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Shirts collaborated only with the Democratic Party, and operated openly, as they wanted the North Carolina population and non-Democrats to know the identities of their members.
Split into simpler sentences: Beeby 2008 Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Shirts collaborated only with the Democratic Party. They operated openly, as they wanted the North Carolina population and non-Democrats to know the identities of their members.