Tag: red shirts
Posted in Redeemers
South Carolina Senator Describing the Hamburg Massacre Marking America’s 100 Birthday on July 4, 1876 As Victory for White Supremacy
Here is how the Red Shirts, a clandestine terrorist group, celebrated the 100th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1876. The…
Posted in Black Officeholders Memory of Reconstruction Podcast Podcasts White Supremacy White Terror
Podcast on the 1898 White Supremacist Coup that Took Control of Wilmington, N.C.
In 1898 the Redshirts, a White Supremacist paramilitary organization operating in the Carolinas, staged a coup in which they took over North Carolina’s second largest…
Posted in Elections
Counting the Vote in 1876-Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Election Day 1876 had gone anything but smoothly in South Carolina. The heavily armed white Redshirt supporters of former Confederate General Wade Hampton set the…
“A dead Radical is very harmless” How to Win the Election of 1876
The Election of 1876 is most well-known for what happened after the polls were closed. Fraudulent and delayed vote counts, rival state tallies of votes,…