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CALL TO ACTION: 3,000 SHARES AND REPOSTS RECLAIMING MEMORIAL DAY

What They Don't Teach You About Memorial Day.

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Before there was Memorial Day, there was Decoration Day — and it was created by us. On May 1, 1865, in Charleston, South Carolina, newly freed Africans organized one of the most powerful acts of remembrance this country has ever seen. They gathered at the Washington Race Course — a former Confederate prison camp where 257 Union soldiers had been buried in mass graves — and gave those men a proper burial. Over 10,000 people showed up. Leading the procession were 3,000 Black schoolchildren carrying armloads of roses and singing "John Brown's Body." They were followed by Black women with baskets of flowers, Black ministers, and white missionaries — all honoring those who died so that they might be free.​This was the first Decoration Day. It belonged to us.

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Three years later, in 1868, the United States government erased this history. General John A. Logan officially declared May 30th as "Decoration Day," stripping away the Black origins of this sacred tradition and reframing it as a nationally controlled holiday. Over time it was renamed Memorial Day — and the story of those 3,000 children, those freed people, that racetrack in Charleston — was buried.

We are reclaiming it.

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This Memorial Day, know the true history. Share it. Honor it. And never let it be forgotten again.

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1. https://www.history.com/articles/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/05/29/first-memorial-day-black-charleston/

3. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/african-american-memorial-day.htm

4. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/26/us/the-unofficial-history-of-memorial-day.html

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