“Red Shirts,” white men who formed an ad hoc militia in North Carolina, outside a polling place in Wilmington, where they intimidated blacks into not voting.

by | Apr 30, 2020

“Red Shirts,” white men who formed an ad hoc militia in North Carolina, outside a polling place in Wilmington, where they intimidated blacks into not voting.

White newspapers in the South blamed the violence in Wilmington on blacks, a lie that remained in place well into the 20th century.