Blackshirts (disambiguation)
Blackshirts or Black Shirt may refer to the following:
Politics and Government
- Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale, a paramilitary movement of the Fascist Party in Italy during World War II and the interbellum years
- Blackshirts (India), an anti-religious atheist quasi-political movement in India
- British Union of Fascists, whose party nickname was "Blackshirts"
- Schutzstaffel (SS), Nazi military organization who had the nickname as they wore black and brown uniforms, compared to the "brownshirts" Sturmabteilung (SA)
- Blackshirts (Australia), a militant fathers' rights group in Australia.
Media and Entertainment
- Blackshirts (football), the informal name for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln football team defense
- Blackshirt, a 'gentleman criminal', is the main fictional character in a series of crime and adventure novels published between 1925 and 1969, written by Bruce Graeme (the pen name of Graham Montague Jeffries), then by his son Roderic Jeffries.
- La Camisa Negra, a song by Juanes which translates to The Black Shirt
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