Ruining Confederate Memorial Day

Confederate Memorial Day: when Southern states celebrate treason ...

Monday is Confederate Memorial Day in Alabama, one of three states that still set aside a state holiday — meaning government offices are closed ...

what's your opinion on Confederate memorial day - Reddit

I think confederate Memorial Day should exist to remember the people who were wrongfully forced or convinced into fighting their countrymen by a feudal ...

Activists are calling on state leaders to leave Confederate Memorial ...

Mississippi is one of three southern states that observe Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday, but advocates believe the celebration is antiquated and ...

Should We Honor Confederate Ancestors on Memorial Day?

They honor Confederate dead with American flags for Memorial Day, saying that “over the past 150 years Confederates have come to be considered ...

Confederate Memorial Day a Time to Consider Changes

One month ago marked the 163 anniversary of South Carolina's shelling for Fort Sumter, which launched the Civil War and eventually cost the ...

Ruining Confederate Memorial Day: A Report-Back from Stone ...

They fired off a single blank shot from their cannon to drown out the crowd's chants, to little avail. Protestors were quick to exchange words ...

Does Memorial Day have its origins in defeated Confederates?

They wished to annoy the Yankees; and now the Grand Army of the Republic in retaliation and from no worthier motive, have determined to annoy ...

Confederate Memorial Day and the Lost Cause Myth

Their uniforms were the color of smoke; their caps looked as if they had been bathed in ash. Everyone in the crowd stood up as they marched by.

Memorial Day was political from the beginning. Here's how the ...

As Blight wrote, Black Americans who celebrated Memorial Day “converted Confederate ruin into their own festival of freedom.” Over time, some of ...

Laurel the Graves: The History of Memorial Day - The Frick Pittsburgh

In the south, orators often ignored the role that slavery played in the cause of the war, painting instead an image of a glorious Confederate ...

Confederate Memorial Day Sneaks Up on Some - WKRG

“I think it's important that people recognize Confederate Memorial Day just as you would United States soldiers, veterans. Guys on both sides ...

Controversial 'Confederate Memorial Day' honors soldiers killed ...

As the United States prepares for Memorial Day services and activities, several Southern states also recognize a lesser known but highly ...

Opinion | Forgetting Why We Remember - The New York Times

In the South, Memorial Day was a means of confronting the Confederacy's defeat but without repudiating its cause. Some Southern orators stressed ...

'We live by the ways of the South': Confederate Memorial Day ...

GRAHAM — A prayer for the dead opened the Confederate Memorial Day Service hosted by a southern rights organization, Alamance County Taking ...

Is Confederate Memorial Day a thing? - Quora

It is celebrated on our regular memorial day. An organization called “The Sons Of The Confederacy" put confederate flags on the graves of ...

Posts misleadingly compare Juneteenth and toppling Confederate ...

Days after U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris signed a bill into law to make June 19 a federal holiday, ...

Why Texas Still Celebrates Confederate Heroes Day

One of Texas's most enduring memorials to the Confederacy isn't a statue cast in bronze or a plaque dedicated to the Lost Cause.

Memorial Day 2018 - Brooklyn Law School

In the South, Memorial Day was a means of confronting the Confederacy's defeat without repudiating its cause. Some Southern orators stressed ...

Why do some states have strange holidays, like Confederate ...

Both Memorial Day and Veterans Day started as Confederate Holidays. Those days had everything to do with Honoring the Individual Soldiers who ...

Removal of Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

According to The Washington Post, five Confederate monuments were removed after the Civil War, eight in the two years after the Charleston shooting, 48 in the ...