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Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoDeglassco@mastodon.social
May 26, 2025, 10:17 PM
More Secondary Sources
Blight, David W. “Forgetting Why We Remember.” The New York Times, May 29, 2011.
Miller Jr., Edward A. Gullah Statesman: Robert Smalls from Slavery to Congress, 1839–1915. Columbia, SC: University of SC Press, 1995.
Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Gannon, Barbara. The Won Cause: Black and White Comradeship in the Grand Army of the Republic. Chapel Hill: University of NC Press, 2011.
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Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoDeglassco@mastodon.social
May 26, 2025, 10:19 PM
Website Resources:
https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/african-american-memorial-day.htm
http://www.davidwblight.com/public-history/2015/4/27/the-first-decoration-day-newark-star-ledger
https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-119/lecture-19
https://www.cem.va.gov/history/Memorial-Day-History.asp
https://chsasalh.com/2024/05/23/decoration-day-charlestons-gullah-community-honoring-the-fallen-first-memorial-day/#:~:text=Freed%20Black%20residents%20of%20Charleston,dignitaries%20and%20formerly%20enslaved%20people.
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Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoDeglassco@mastodon.social
May 26, 2025, 10:20 PM
More Website Resources
https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston
https://naacplosangeles.org/news/f/naacpla-memorial-day-in-usa-founded-by-blacks-in-1865?blogcategory=Los+Angeles#:~:text=Near%20a%20reflecting%20pool%20at,the%20South%20at%20the%20time.
https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/05/26/contested-confederate-roots-memorial-day/
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2023/05/25/freed-slaves-started-first-memorial-day-in-the-us/
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MrinappropriateMrInappropriate@mastodonapp.uk
May 26, 2025, 10:50 PM
@Deglassco Thank you for this. It depresses, but does not surprise me that history was rewritten.
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Dr. D. Elisabeth GlasscoDeglassco@mastodon.social
May 26, 2025, 11:11 PM
@MrInappropriate you’re welcome. Thanks for reading it. No, it’s no surprise but that’s why we keep the memory alive..
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Trip Ktriplingual@code4lib.social
May 26, 2025, 11:54 PM
@Deglassco Thank you for this excellent thread.
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