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Playne JayneFacts matter‼️
#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackHistoryIsWorldHistory
#decorationday
#MemorialDay
#blackveterans
#columbiasc
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦PS: the #federal Parks Services has a page recognizing the South Carolina event as the first #MemorialDay, aka #DecorationDay
❝ …one of the earliest recorded observations of the holiday indisputably took place in Charleston, South Carolina, in the closing days of the Civil War… On May 1, 1865, the freed people of Charleston gathered at the old racetrack to decorate the graves of 257 Union prisoners of war who had been hastily buried by the retreating Confederate army.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/african-american-memorial-day.htm
Richard Welty#memorialday #decorationday http://www.davidwblight.com/public-history/2015/4/27/the-first-decoration-day-newark-star-ledger
The First Decoration Day | Newark Star Ledger — David W. Blight
David W. Blight, Yale University Americans understand that Memorial Day, or "Decoration Day," as my parents called it, has something to do with honoring the nation's war dead. It is also a day devoted to picnics, road races, commencements, and double-headers. But where did it begin, who c
ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)Screw "Memorial Day". I'm celebrating Decoration Day:
https://www.liberationnews.org/revolutionary-origins-memorial-day-political-hijacking-2/
#DecorationDay #MemorialDay #WhiteSupremacy #AntiRacism #PoliticalHijacking #WhiteWashing
The revolutionary origins of Memorial Day and its political hijacking
The spirit of the first Decoration Day — the struggle for Black liberation and the fight against racism — has unfortunately been whitewashed from the modern Memorial Day.
Rudheath Primary AcademyA special thank you to all the staff that made today so fun for all the children. A bonus thank you to the cleaning staff - it's not their favourite day! #DecorationDay
Congratulations to Olivia who won the ASM Technologies Christmas Jumper competition last year. Her design was made into a real Christmas jumper by ASM Technologies. She was presented with it yesterday - ready for today's #DecorationDay
