The forgotten Black history of MemorialDay
The work of honoring the dead began right away all over the country, and several American towns. Researchers have traced the earliest annual commemoration to women who laid flowers on soldiers’ graves in the Civil War hospital town of Columbus, Miss., in April 1866. But historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers’ graves a year earlier, to make sure their story gets told too.
About 10,000 people, mostly black residents, participated in the May 1 tribute, according to coverage back then in the Charleston. Starting at 9 a.m., about 3,000 black schoolchildren paraded around the race track holding roses and singing the Union songand were followed by adults representing aid societies for freed black men and women. Black pastors delivered sermons and led attendees in prayer and in the singing of spirituals, and there were picnics.
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