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The Rise and Fall of the Red Shirts
Josephus Daniels had said that his campaign to end what he saw as black domination would need three kinds of men. The red shirts were white vigilantes, and their job in the summer and fall of 1898 was to write out through the Cape Fear countryside around Wilmington at night with guns. They would break into black homes and beat them and whip them and tell them if they dared to register to vote. And it worked because this rage just built up over the summer andFall leading to the election in early November.