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Groups and movements

  • Redshirts (Italy), (Italian: Camicie rosse), followers of Giuseppe Garibaldi in southern Italy during his Expedition of the Thousand.


Other groups and movements have use the phrase since Garibaldi. Among them are:
  • Red Shirts (Mexico)
    Red Shirts (Mexico)
    The Red Shirts were a paramilitary organization, existing in the 1930s, founded by the virulently anti-Catholic, atheist and anticlerical Governor of Tabasco, Mexico, Tomás Garrido Canabal during his second term. As part of their attempt to destroy the Church, they systematically destroyed...

     (Spanish: Camisas Rojas), an anti-Catholic, paramilitary organization in Mexico in the 1930s.
  • Red Shirts (Southern United States), militant, white, Southern opponents of blacks, carpetbaggers, and United States troops during and after Reconstruction.
  • Abahlali baseMjondolo
    Abahlali baseMjondolo
    Abahlali baseMjondolo , also known as AbM or the red shirts is a shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa which is well known for its campaigning for public housing. The movement grew out of a road blockade organized from the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the city of Durban in early 2005 and now...

    , South African shack-dwellers' movement.
  • Khudai Khidmatgar
    Khudai Khidmatgar
    Khudai Khidmatgar literally translates as the servants of God, represented a non-violent freedom struggle against the British Empire by the Pashtuns of the North-West Frontier Province....

    , a Pashtun movement against the British in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
  • Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go
    Million Voices against Corruption, President Chen Must Go
    Million Voices against Corruption, President Chen Must Go was a mass campaign led by former Democratic Progressive Party leader and Taiwanese politician Shih Ming-te to pressure Republic of China President Chen Shui-bian to resign.-Background:...

    , protesters against the Taiwanese President, Chen Shui-bian, in 2007
  • National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship
    National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship
    The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship , whose supporters are commonly called "Red Shirts", is a political pressure group opposed to the People's Alliance for Democracy , the 2006 Thai military coup, and supporters of the coup. Notable UDD leaders include Jatuporn Prompan, Nattawut...

    , a political pressure group in Thailand, supporting the deposed Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra

Individuals

  • Red Shirt
    Red Shirt (Oglala)
    Red Shirt was an Oglala Sioux warrior who served in the capacity of chief at two Sioux peace delegations to Washington in 1870 and in 1880. He was officially appointed chief of the Oglala at the Pine Ridge Agency in 1878...

    , a chief of the Oglala Sioux tribe
  • Delphine Red Shirt
    Delphine Red Shirt
    Delphine Red Shirt is a Native-American writer.-Biography:Red Shirt spent her earliest years off the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in a small town in northern Nebraska where she attended public school, learning to speak English for the first time...

    , a female Oglala Lakota Sioux writer
  • Kuilix
    Kuilix
    Kuilix, , name also given as Kuiliy, Mary Quille, and Marie Quilax, was a woman of the Pend d'Oreilles in Montana...

    , a female Pend d'Oreilles tribal war leader from the Montana territories whose name translates as "Red Shirt" or "Red One"
  • Red Shirt Gordon
    Red Shirt Gordon
    Red Shirt Gordon was a criminal who escaped from Folsom Prison in California as leader of the "Big Break" in 1903. Gordon and twelve other prisoners overpowered guards, took hostages, and escaped from the prison, which at the time had no walls. Six fugitives were captured. Three were executed and...

    , an American fugitive

Film and television

  • Redshirt (character)
    Redshirt (character)
    A "redshirt" is a stock character in fiction who dies soon after being introduced. The term originates with fans of Star Trek , from the red shirts worn by Starfleet security officers who frequently die during episodes.-Star Trek:...

    , a stock "cannon fodder
    Cannon fodder
    Cannon fodder is an informal, derogatory term for military personnel who are regarded or treated as expendable in the face of enemy fire. The term is generally used in situations where soldiers are forced to deliberately fight against hopeless odds in an effort to achieve a strategic goal...

    " character, originating in the original Star Trek
    Star Trek: The Original Series
    Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions . Star Trek was telecast on NBC from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969...

     TV series. In many episodes of Star Trek, red-uniformed security officers and engineers accompanying the main landing party will quickly die. Normally a new/unknown character.
    • "Redshirt Blues
      Redshirt Blues
      "Redshirt Blues" is a 2001 fan film that was made by fans of original Star Trek. It was written, directed and produced by David O. Rogers. It satirizes the use of redshirts on the television series as well as the show itself, Trekkies, and popular culture....

      ", a 2001 Star Trek fan film parodying the use of redshirts
  • Camicie rosse, a 1952 film about Anita Garibaldi, the wife of Guiseppe Garibaldi, directed by Franco Rossi
    Franco Rossi
    Franco Rossi was an Italian film screenwriter and director, mainly known for having directed the six hour long Italian-German-British-Swiss TV mini-series Quo Vadis? in 1985....


Education

  • Redshirt (college sports)
    Redshirt (college sports)
    Redshirt is a term used in American college athletics that refers to a delay or suspension of an athlete's participation in order to lengthen his or her period of eligibility...

    , delaying a college athlete's participation in order to lengthen eligibility
  • Redshirting (academic)
    Redshirting (academic)
    Redshirting for young children refers to the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for socioemotional, intellectual, or physical growth...

    , the practice of postponing entrance into kindergarten of age-eligible children in order to allow extra time for emotional, intellectual or physical growth

Places

  • Red Shirt, South Dakota
    Red Shirt, South Dakota
    Red Shirt is a small unincorporated Oglala Lakota village southeast of Hermosa in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. It is on the Pine Ridge Reservation, just outside Badlands National Park....

    , a small Lakota village in South Dakota, United States
  • Red Shirt Table
    Red Shirt Table
    Red Shirt Table is a table mountain in Shannon County, South Dakota part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The table, named after Chief Red Shirt is approximately long, generally extending in a north-south direction, and is located along the western boundary of...

    , a table mountain in South Dakota
  • Lalkurti
    Lalkurti
    Lalkurti, literally meaning 'red shirt', is a locality in the heart of Rawalpindi cantonment in Pakistan. Places with the same name are also found in many other garrison cities of Pakistan and India, such as Peshawar, Kanpur, Ambala, Meerut and Delhi....

     (literal translation: "Red Shirt"), a name for many localities in India and Pakistan

Other

  • Red Shirt School of Photography
    Red Shirt School of Photography
    The Red Shirt School of Photography is a trend in photography which first became popular in the 1950s. It was pioneered by National Geographic photographers, who had subjects wear, or chose subjects who wore overly colorful clothes...

    , a trend pioneered by National Geographic photographers to have subjects wear overly colorful clothes
  • In aircraft carrier operations in the U.S. Navy, crew members who deal with ordnance and firefighting wear red shirts, and are sometimes referred to as "red shirts"
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