Did y'all know that black people created Memorial Day?

[Supreme HD]

I love my people :raised fist:

Black kings and queens are the goats. Simple.

 

[StretfordRed]

@HewittAve



KNOW YOUR HISTORY:

Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. They then held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children where they marched, sang and celebrated.

From the article you posted:



Did you even read the article bro

So I'll explain

Snopes puts an "example" section where they quote the piece of text or imagary which is being passed as fact. Hence why you have "EXAMPLE:[Collected via e-mail, May 2013]" and then the text you quoted.

If you look a sentence above it says:

WHAT'S TRUE: In May 1865, free blacks in Charleston reburied dead Union prisoners of war and held a cemetery dedication ceremony.

WHAT'S FALSE: The May 1865 event was the origin of the modern Memorial Day observance

Understand?

Whether or not I am white or not, all I am trying to do is get people to fact check things before spouting as fact! I am happy enough to be proven wrong whenever

 

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This is why more stories (be they movies, shows, books whatever) about slavery need to be told

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Is this legit or just some meme that someone cooked up & people started reposting it because it sounded good.

Thats exactly what whites do to history. They try there best to say they were involved with everything to make themselves seem like the supreiors.

 

[Ronnie Lott]

did you read the article? these hotep nikkas i swear

go back in the article and read. it. again.

Date:
Mon, 1865-05-01
*On this date in 1865, former Black slaves started Memorial Day in America.

This occurred in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. Together with teachers and missionaries, Black residents of Charleston organized a May Day ceremony that year which was covered by the New York Tribune and other national papers.

The freedmen cleaned up and landscaped the burial ground, building an enclosure and an arch labeled, "Martyrs of the Race Course." Nearly ten thousand people, mostly freedmen, gathered on May 1 to commemorate the war dead. Involved were about 3,000 Black school children newly enrolled in Freedmen's schools, mutual aid societies, Union troops, Black ministers, and White northern missionaries. Most brought flowers to be placed on the burial field. Years later, the celebration would come to be called the "First Decoration Day" in the North.

David W. Blight described the day: "This was the first Memorial Day. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.

The first American Memorial Day is Commemorated | African American Registry

 

[StretfordRed]

The first American Memorial Day is Commemorated | African American Registry

"However, Blight stated he "has no evidence" that this event in Charleston inspired the establishment of Memorial Day across the country.[15]"

We can go all day bro

But I want y'all to enjoy the day. Go out, get some sun and enjoy the fresh air!

 

[Ronnie Lott]

So I'll explain

Snopes puts an "example" section where they quote the piece of text or imagary which is being passed as fact. Hence why you have "EXAMPLE:[Collected via e-mail, May 2013]" and then the text you quoted.

If you look a sentence above it says:



Understand?

Whether or not I am white or not, all I am trying to do is get people to fact check things before spouting as fact! I am happy enough to be proven wrong whenever

Are you white? I asked you a very Simple question

 

[Ronnie Lott]

"However, Blight stated he "has no evidence" that this event in Charleston inspired the establishment of Memorial Day across the country.[15]"

We can go all day bro

But I want y'all to enjoy the day. Go out, get some sun and enjoy the fresh air!

Nowhere in the article that I posted does it say that

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Thread moved to Root Bonus: Thread featured and OP repped.

Enjoy.

 

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this our country

 

[Bawon Samedi]

this our country

Which is why I laugh at racist who claim we should go back to Africa. If only more AAs knew of the contributions we made to this country(and no not being slaves!) from music, infrastructure, agriculture, religion(yes, religion), cowboy culture,etc.

 

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[Rekkapryde]

By @theblaquelioness "As the U.S. Civil War came to a close in April 1865, Union troops entered the city of #Charleston, #SC., where four years prior the war had begun. While white residents had largely fled the city, Black residents of Charleston remained to celebrate and welcome the troops, who included the #TwentyFirstColoredInfantry. Their celebration on May 1, 1865, the first “#DecorationDay,” later became #MemorialDay.

Born and Raised in Charleston and never knew this

 

[StretfordRed]

Nowhere in the article that I posted does it say that

From the NY Time article

Yet unfortunately, he said, even that most generalized origin is unfamiliar to most Americans.

In his book “Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory,” Professor Blight describes a mostly forgotten — or possibly suppressed — event in Charleston, S.C., in 1865 at a racetrack turned war prison. Black workmen properly reburied the Union dead that were found there, and on May 1, a cemetery dedication was held, attended by thousands of freed blacks who marched in procession around the track.

He has called that the first Memorial Day, as it predated most of the other contenders, though he said he has no evidence that it led to General Logan’s call for a national holiday.

Maybe it was all part of a theme and feeling going on at the same time. I think its better to say black people had a part in it
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But leaving y'all to it! Enjoy the day!

 

[brother walt]

IN BEFORE ACNE FACE CACS SAY ITS NOT TRUE

"EDIT"

NEVAMIND

Memorial Day Origins



I have never trusted Instagram/FB pictures for historical "facts". Like when people said black Friday was for the sale of slaves.

This could be true though. But just enjoy the day instead of making it a race thing