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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. " Waving the bloody shirt " and " bloody shirt campaign " were pejorative phrases, used during American election campaigns during the Reconstruction era, to deride opposing politicians who made emotional ...
Waving the bloody shirt" became an idiom in the South, attributed to rhetoric by Republican politicians such as Oliver Hazard Perry Morton in the Senate, who used emotional accounts of injustices done to Northern soldiers and carpetbaggers to bolster support for the Republicans' Reconstruction policies in South Carolina. The red shirt symbolism ...
A woman with red handprint on her mouth in Rochester, Minnesota. A red handprint, usually painted across the mouth, is a symbol that is used to indicate solidarity with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and girls in North America, in recognition of the fact that Native American women are up to 10 times more likely to be murdered or sexually assaulted.
He yanks the bloody shirt-tail through his fly again. Stone stares, hand on his chin. Everyone’s looking at him—Harrelson, Lewis, Downey, Richardson. At forty-seven, ...
The Red Hand of Ulster (Irish: Lámh Dhearg Uladh) is a symbol used in heraldry [1] to denote the Irish province of Ulster and the Northern Uí Néill in particular. It has also been used however by other Irish clans across the island, including the ruling families of western Connacht (i.e. the O'Flahertys and McHughs) and the chiefs of the Midlands (e.g. O'Daly, Kearney, etc.).
Raised fist. Performer raising a fist at Woodstock Festival Poland. The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a long-standing image of mixed meaning, often a symbol of solidarity, especially with a political movement. It is a common symbol representing a wide range of political ideologies, most notably socialism, communism, anarchism, and trade ...
It likely means "bear-shirt" (compare the Middle English word 'serk', meaning 'shirt'), "someone who wears a coat made out of a bear's skin". [2] Thirteenth-century historian Snorri Sturluson interpreted the meaning as "bare-shirt", that is to say that the warriors went into battle without armour , [ 3 ] but that view has largely been abandoned ...
The hammer and sickle symbol and red star. The hammer and sickle (Unicode: U+262D ☭ HAMMER AND SICKLE) is a communist symbol representing proletarian solidarity between agricultural and industrial workers. It was first adopted during the Russian Revolution at the end of World War I, the hammer representing workers and the sickle representing ...