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The revolutionary origins of Memorial Day and its political hijacking

Posted on May 27 2013 by Spectrevision SecretSanta

The revolutionary origins of Memorial Day and its political hijacking

The revolutionary origins of Memorial Day and its political hijacking

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The idea of a Memorial Day "without politics" came about in the Jim Crow period as the Northern and Southern elites sought to downplay the history of Black emancipation and reunite the country around mourning.

http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/revolutionary-memorial-day-hijacked.html

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