List of Shirt movements in America
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Below is a list of various Shirt movements in America. Most of these movements were inspired by the 1920s Italian Black Shirts and the 1930s so-called Brown Shirts of National Socialist Germany.
- Red Shirts were a white paramilitary group active in the South after the American Civil War.
- In the 1940s the Yankee Freemen were called the Red Shirts.
- Black Shirts was headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and called their organization the American Fascisti (Order of Black Shirts) claiming a dubious membership of 30,000.
- Blue Shirts based in Montreal, Canada with a claimed membership of 15,000 Americans in the Midwest United States.
- Brown Shirts was the label given by the media to the New York-based Friends of New Germany. Later this group would be reorganized and become the German American Bund.
- Gray Shirts of America headed by Hubert Schmuederrich
- Italian Black Shirts of Pittsburgh
- Khaki Shirts was founded by Art J. Smith
- National Blue Shirt Minute Men (anti-nationalist)
- Silver Shirts was founded by William Dudley Pelley
- Ukrainian Brown Shirts
- Crusader White Shirts was founded by George W. Christians
- American Blue Corps a 1930s Blue Shirt organization.
