How America’s First Memorial Day Was Lost To Racist Gaps in Our History
The “martyrs of the racecourse” whitewashed from our nation’s memory
If you ask most Americans when we celebrate Memorial Day, they are likely to give you the date — May 30th because that’s when our nation honors servicemen and women, many of whom gave their lives in combat. Generations of whitewashed history created Swiss cheese gaps in our nationa…
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