On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

It wasn’t until 1971 that Congress declared Memorial Day as a national holiday and designated it as the last Monday in May. “The day remained a popular community celebration where white and Black ...

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UNITED STATES, — Memorial Day is one of ... roughly two dozen Black American Charlestonians reorganized the graves into orderly rows and constructed a 10-foot-tall white fence around them.

The first Memorial Day ... dozen Black people stepped in to ensure they were remembered. Believe it or not, they exhumed the bodies, laid them in organized rows and built a 10-foot-high white ...

Memorial Day may be the unofficial start of summer, but it is also time set aside to remember this country’s fallen soldiers. Many Black folks roll their eyes at what this day means, but they ...

Memorial Day weekend traditionally honors military ... than providing them with respect and protection. White supremacist communities viewed Black military service as a direct threat to ...

The latter occurred when Black freedmen and White "Northern abolitionist allies" honored the 257 Union soldiers buried at the Charleston, South Carolina graveyard. Though Memorial Day and Veteran ...

One of the earliest known celebrations of Memorial Day can be traced back to formerly enslaved persons and white missionaries ... The Charleston Courier, 3,000 Black schoolchildren carried ...

The initial commemoration of Memorial Day is often disputed ... enslaved African Americans and some white missionaries had a parade where schoolchildren, Black religious leaders and members ...