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Red and navy trimmed wool shirt with brass buttons worn by Josiah McKie during the events of the Hamburg Massacre in 1876. This object is an important piece of Reconstruction Era history in South Carolina – the Red Shirt.
Red Shirt groups originated in Mississippi in 1875, when anti-Reconstruction private terror units adopted red shirts to make themselves more visible and threatening to Southern Republicans, both whites and freedmen. Similar groups in the Carolinas also adopted red shirts.
Sep 1, 2022 · The White Line and the Red Shirts. In Mississippi and Louisiana, the White Line, a paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, instigated much of the violence. Two of the most brazen White Line attacks occurred in Louisiana in 1873 and 1874.
Bloody shirt, in U.S. history, the post-Civil War political strategy of appealing to voters by recalling the passions and hardships of the recent war. This technique of “waving the bloody shirt” was most often employed by Radical Republicans in their efforts to focus public attention on.
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- The candidates were a reform-minded Democrat and a Reconstructionist Republican. Hayes, a lawyer, businessman and abolitionist, was a war hero who had fought in the U.S. Army during the Civil War.
- Voter suppression was rampant in the post-Confederacy South. Many historians argue that if votes had been counted accurately and fairly in Southern states, Hayes might have won the 1876 election outright.
- Election results were a mess. Just a few days following the election, Tilden appeared poised to narrowly clinch the election. He had captured 51.5 percent of the popular vote to Hayes’s 48 percent, a margin of about 250,000 votes.
- Secret deals, backroom debates and new rules decided the election. In an unprecedented move, Congress decided to create an extralegal “Election Commission” composed of five senators, five House members and five Supreme Court justices.
Jul 19, 2021 · The Compromise of 1877, which recognized the end of slavery but entrenched Black inequality, showed what was possible at the start of Reconstruction and did not require a decade of painful efforts and staggering death toll.
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Jul 22, 2024 · The term “Red Shirt” refers to South Carolina Democrats who contributed to “redeeming” the state from Radical Republican rule in 1876 by participating in local rifle clubs characterized by their militant structure.
