Anonymous ID: 23bae1 June 3, 2021, 4:25 a.m. No.13819647   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Fact Check: One Of The First Memorial Day Celebrations WAS Started By Formerly Enslaved Black People

Fact Check

Jun 2, 2021 by: Christiana Dillard

 

Did formerly enslaved Black people start Memorial Day in the U.S.? Evidence suggests that they may have: A celebration on May 1, 1865, is considered one of the first mass memorializations of fallen soldiers in the country. The celebration was organized and attended by formerly enslaved Black people who, along with white sympathizers, honored Union soldiers who died in the American Civil War.

 

However, historians have yet to confirm which Memorial Day celebration was actually the first.

 

The claim appeared in a Facebook post (archived here) published on May 31, 2021, on the page of actress Jada Pinkett Smith. The graphic featured a black and white image of Black children saluting a U.S. flag held by a Black boy.

Anonymous ID: 23bae1 June 3, 2021, 4:56 a.m. No.13819790   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>13819757

 

In the past hundred years, the U.S. presidency has veered more and more to the left

โ€” not in policy, but in handedness.

Barack Obama is the latest to join a long list of left-handed presidents from the 20th century:

James Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Henry Truman,

Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton

were all southpaws.

 

 

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