Redshirt

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Redshirt or Red Shirt may refer to:

• Redshirt (college sports), a term referring to delaying a college athlete's participation in order to lengthen eligibility
• Redshirt (character), a stock "cannon fodder" character in fiction, particularly in Star Trek: The Original Series
• Red Shirt, South Dakota, a small Lakota village in South Dakota, United States
• Red Shirt School of Photography, a trend pioneered by National Geographic photographers to have subjects wear overly colourful clothes
• RedShirt, an encryption scheme used in games by Introversion Software
• Delphine Red Shirt, an Oglala Lakota Sioux writer
• Kuilix, a Pend d'Oreilles woman whose name meant "Red Shirt" or "Red One"

Redshirts or Red Shirts may refer to:

• Redshirts (Italy), volunteer followers of Giuseppe Garibaldi in southern Italy during his Expedition of the Thousand
• Red Shirts (Southern United States), militant white Southern opponents of blacks during and after Reconstruction
• Red Shirts (Mexico), an anti-Catholic paramilitary organization in Mexico in the 1930's
• Red Shirts (Surkh Posh), another name for the Khudai Khidmatgar, a Pashtun movement against the British in the North West Frontier Province, and its successor, the Awami National Party of that region in Pakistan
• Red Shirts, another name for Abahlali baseMjondolo, a South African shack dwellers' movement
• Redshirts (film) (Camicie rosse), a 1952 film directed by Francesco Rosi

[edit] See also

• Red coat