In Charleston, South Carolina, thousands of formerly enslaved Black Americans organized a Memorial Day commemoration for deceased Union soldiers who had lost their lives in the Civil War (1861 ...

UNITED STATES, — Memorial Day is one of the United ... and were buried in unmarked graves. Black residents of Charleston decided to give these fallen soldiers a proper burial.

From the Revolutionary War to today’s conflicts, Black soldiers have bravely served in America’s military, fighting for freedoms they often couldn’t enjoy themselves. Memorial Day gives us a ...

Instead of letting those soldiers tumble into obscurity, a group of roughly two dozen Black ... Memorial Day predecessor was buried—pun intended—because it didn’t fit the narrative white ...

The latter occurred when Black freedmen and White "Northern abolitionist allies" honored the 257 Union soldiers buried at the Charleston, South Carolina graveyard. Though Memorial Day and Veteran ...