The South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 were a series of race riots and civil unrest related to the Democratic Party's political campaign to take back control from Republicans of the state legislature and governor's office through their paramilitary Red Shirts division. Part of their plan was to disrupt Republican political activity and suppress black voting, particularly in counties where populations of whites and blacks were close to equal. Former Confederate general Martin W. Gary's "Plan of the Campaign of 1876" gives the details of planned actions to accomplish this.
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| - The South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 were a series of race riots and civil unrest related to the Democratic Party's political campaign to take back control from Republicans of the state legislature and governor's office through their paramilitary Red Shirts division. Part of their plan was to disrupt Republican political activity and suppress black voting, particularly in counties where populations of whites and blacks were close to equal. Former Confederate general Martin W. Gary's "Plan of the Campaign of 1876" gives the details of planned actions to accomplish this. (en)
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| - Savannah River
- Beaufort, South Carolina
- Democratic Party (United States)
- List of counties in South Carolina
- Republican Party (United States)
- Union Army
- Union army
- Charleston County
- Confederate States of America
- History of the Southern United States
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- 1876 in South Carolina
- Augusta, Georgia
- Wade Hampton III
- White Church, Cainhoy
- African American
- Daniel Henry Chamberlain
- Edgefield, South Carolina
- Edmund William McGregor Mackey
- Riots and civil disorder during the Reconstruction Era
- Riots and civil disorder in South Carolina
- History of South Carolina
- History of racism in South Carolina
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Black suffrage in the United States
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- South Carolina gubernatorial election, 1876
- Martin Witherspoon Gary
- South Carolina General Assembly
- The Upstate
- Matthew Calbraith Butler
- The Post and Courier
- Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
- Midlands, South Carolina
- Ben Tillman
- Martin W. Gary
- South Carolina Low Country
- The Citadel (military college)
- Race riot
- Cainhoy, South Carolina
- Red Shirts (South Carolina)
- Hamburg, South Carolina
- Benjamin R. Tillman
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| - The South Carolina civil disturbances of 1876 were a series of race riots and civil unrest related to the Democratic Party's political campaign to take back control from Republicans of the state legislature and governor's office through their paramilitary Red Shirts division. Part of their plan was to disrupt Republican political activity and suppress black voting, particularly in counties where populations of whites and blacks were close to equal. Former Confederate general Martin W. Gary's "Plan of the Campaign of 1876" gives the details of planned actions to accomplish this. The following incidents took place mostly in counties where blacks were in the majority, but not significantly. The Upstate counties had majorities of whites and racial disturbances were uncommon, whereas the Lowcountry counties had an overwhelming black population. White militias were not so active there. In the Midlands, Edgefield District and Charleston area, Democrats exerted considerable effort to step up the Democratic vote and suppress black Republican voting by intimidation and violence, including outright murder and assassination of a black state representative. In 1875 Charleston had a population that was 57% black, with a Charleston County population that was 73% black. Having had a tradition of a well-established class of free people of color in the city, African Americans organized to defend themselves during this volatile period. By suppressing the black majority in Edgefield County and election fraud (2,000 more votes were counted than the total number of registered voters in the county), the Democrats elected Wade Hampton III as the Democratic candidate by a narrow margin of slightly more than 1100 votes statewide. They also carried the state legislature. (en)
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