The Hidden Black History Of Memorial Day
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 27 May 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Thousands of Black bodies had been tossed in mass graves after fighting for freedom — it was only right that they honored the fallen. Ten thousand people sang hymns and laid flowers. How did the Black history of this holiday get erased?
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| 0:33.6 | Thousands of black bodies had been tossed in mass graves after fighting for freedom. |
| 0:38.3 | It was only right that they honored the fallen. |
| 0:41.3 | Ten thousand people sang hymns and laid flowers. |
| 0:45.3 | How did the black history of this holiday get erased? |
| 0:49.3 | This is two-minute black history. |
| 0:51.3 | What You Didn't Learn in School. |
| 1:06.0 | Before there was Memorial Day, as we know it now, there was a group of black Charlestonians |
| 1:10.0 | who held the first celebration in honor of the Black |
| 1:13.6 | Lives lost during the Civil War. |
| 1:16.6 | As the war came to an end, Black Union soldiers who had been captured and then left to die |
| 1:22.6 | were tossed into mass graves at a racecourse converted into a Confederate prison. |
| 1:29.9 | But a group of formerly enslaved Black people dug up nearly 300 bodies determined to create |
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