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Waving the bloody shirt. Puck cartoon ridiculing Republican Senator John Sherman for his use of "bloody shirt" memories of the Civil War in 1887, more than two decades after the war ended. " Waving the bloody shirt " and " bloody shirt campaign " were pejorative phrases, used during American election campaigns during the Reconstruction era, to ...
In the 19th century, a number of new methods for conducting American election campaigns developed in the United States. For the most part the techniques were original, not copied from Europe or anywhere else. [2] The campaigns were also changed by a general enlargement of the voting franchise—the states began removing or reducing property and ...
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 ...
He held a “closing argument” rally in Madison Square Garden in his former New York City home, with an hours-long program of derogatory attacks that his critics compared to a Nazi-supporting ...
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 ...
He yanks the bloody shirt-tail through his fly again. Stone stares, hand on his chin. ... There is an argument to be made that Natural Born Killers is the most misunderstood mainstream movie ever ...
He wore a white T-shirt with a black-and-white silk-screened image of his father’s face below the words in red death ≠ justice. “Because we’re not the only two Black men living this saga.
End of Red Shirts' "White Man's Rally". November 2, 1898. The Wilmington white elite looked down on the Red Shirts, known to be "hot-headed", describing them as "ruffians" and "low class". [18] [35] However, they deployed the Red Shirts around the city. The Red Shirts held a series of marches and rallies.