Redshirt

Red shirt, Redshirt or Redshirts may refer to:

Contents 1 Groups and movements 2 Individuals 3 Film and television 4 Education 5 Places 6 Other 7 See also

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) (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, South African shack-dwellers' movement.
• Khudai Khidmatgar, a Pashtun movement against the British in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
• Million Voices Against Corruption, President Chen Must Go, protesters against the Taiwanese President, Chen Shui-bian, in 2007
• National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, a political pressure group in Thailand, supporting the deposed Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra

Individuals

• Red Shirt, a chief of the Oglala Sioux tribe
• Delphine Red Shirt, a female Oglala Lakota Sioux writer
• Kuilix, a female Pend d'Oreilles tribal war leader from the Montana territories whose name translates as "Red Shirt" or "Red One"
• Red Shirt Gordon, an American fugitive

Film and television

• Redshirt (character), a stock "cannon fodder" character, originating in the original Star Trek 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", 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

Education

• Redshirt (college sports), delaying a college athlete's participation in order to lengthen eligibility
• Redshirting (academic), 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, a small Lakota village in South Dakota, United States
• Red Shirt Table, a table mountain in South Dakota
• Lalkurti (literal translation: "Red Shirt"), a name for many localities in India and Pakistan

Other

• Red Shirt School of Photography, 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"

See also

• Red coat (disambiguation)

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