ガソリングラマーさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ガソリングラマーInstagram)「#Repost @agirlhasnopresident • • • • • • Know what you’re “celebrating.” •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• #Repost @theconsciouskid ・・・ Freed Black Americans exhumed the bodies from the mass grave and worked for 2 weeks to give each soldier a proper burial. The bodies were placed in individual graves, a 100-yd. fence was built around them, and an archway was erected over the entrance bearing the words "Martyrs of the Race Course." Some 10,000 Black people staged a procession of mourning, led by thousands of schoolchildren carrying roses and singing the Union anthem “John Brown’s Body.” Hundreds of Black women followed with baskets of flowers, wreaths and crosses. Black men, including Union infantrymen, also marched. “The war was over, and Memorial Day had been founded by Black Americans in a ritual of remembrance and consecration,” Yale historian Dr. David W. Blight wrote. It took three more years for the holiday to be officially proclaimed by General John A. Logan. The African American origins of the holiday were later suppressed, Dr. Blight found, by white Southerners who reclaimed power after the end of Reconstruction & interpreted Memorial Day as a holiday of reconciliation, marking sacrifices — by white Americans — on both sides. Black Americans were largely marginalized in this narrative. "African Americans have fought in every war that the United States has ever been involved in. It is important that more of us know the role Black folks played in the struggle to commemorate & preserve our legacy to keep sacred the sacrifices to end slavery & protect the North.” [Sources: David W. Blight/NYTimes, Time, PBS] #MemorialDay #BlackHistory #Slavery #CivilWar #AmericanHistory #KnowYourHistory #Military #Commemorate #Honor #BlackMen #BlackWomen #History」5月27日 1時58分