List of Shirt movements in America

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.

See also

• International list of Shirt movements

External links

• RACES: Shirt Business
• FASCISM AND ANTI-WAR ACTIVISM IN THE UNITED STATES 1939-45
• The Faded Shirts: Hitlerism Marches in America