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1 dead. 6 dead. The Hamburg Massacre (or Red Shirt Massacre or Hamburg riot) was a riot in the United States town of Hamburg, South Carolina, in July 1876, leading up to the last election season of the Reconstruction Era. It was the first of a series of civil disturbances planned and carried out by white Democrats in the majority-black ...
Hamburg massacre. Wilmington insurrection of 1898. The Red Shirts or Redshirts of the Southern United States were white supremacist [1][2][3] paramilitary terrorist groups that were active in the late 19th century in the last years of, and after the end of, the Reconstruction era of the United States. Red Shirt groups originated in Mississippi ...
The Garibaldi shirt also became a popular type of clothing. According to A Cultural History of the Modern Age: The Crisis of the European Soul, "For a considerable time Garibaldi was the most famous man in Europe, and the red shirt, la camicia rossa, became the fashion for ladies, even outside Italy". [2]
The South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 were a series of race riots and civil unrest related to the Democratic Party 's political campaign to take back control from Republicans of the state legislature and governor's office through their paramilitary Red Shirts division. Part of their plan was to disrupt Republican political activity and ...
Samuel Wilds Trotti of South Carolina was the first Italian American to serve in the United States House of Representatives. [48] Born in Barnwell, South Carolina, Trotti attended the common schools. He graduated from South Carolina College (now University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1832. He studied law and was admitted to the bar.
Italian Americans in the Civil War. Italian Americans in the Civil War are the Italian people and people of Italian descent, living in the United States, who served and fought in the American Civil War, mostly on the side of the Union. A contingent of soldiers from the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies fought on the Confederate side, with most ...
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was a politician of the Democratic Party 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 supremacist who opposed civil rights for black Americans, Tillman led a paramilitary group of Red Shirts during ...
Liquor stores around South Carolina have signs with red dots. This practice dates back to the 1940s. Oct. 21, 2023. In 1945, Charleston sign painter Doc Wansley allegedly became the first to ...