Monday, May 26, 2008

Happy Memorial Day

"But in spite of all the other towns in America that claim to be the site of the first Memorial Day (all claiming spring, 1866), African Americans and Charleston deserve pride of place."

-Prof. David Blight, Yale University
From The Post & Courier

Pictured: Charleston Race Course, site of what some historians consider to be the first Memorial Day celebration.

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