{"id":16607,"date":"2020-05-24T18:52:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T18:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/?p=16607"},"modified":"2022-05-24T00:24:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T00:24:14","slug":"memorial-day-has-a-little-known-african-american-root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/memorial-day-has-a-little-known-african-american-root\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day has a little known African American root"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16609\" style=\"width: 617px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/unnamed_10.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"607\" data-large_image_height=\"284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16609\" class=\"wp-image-16609 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/unnamed_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/unnamed_10.jpg 607w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/unnamed_10-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3,000 school children who carried bouquets\u00a0of flowers and sang &#8220;John Brown&#8217;s Body&#8221; to honor captured Union\u00a0soldiers in Charleston, South Carolina<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16608\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"dt-pswp-item\" href=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Massachusetts-54th-infantry-regiment.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"\" data-large_image_width=\"500\" data-large_image_height=\"316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16608\" class=\"wp-image-16608 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Massachusetts-54th-infantry-regiment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Massachusetts-54th-infantry-regiment.jpg 500w, https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Massachusetts-54th-infantry-regiment-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Memorial Day has a little known African American root. Please see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5836444\/black-memorial-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/time.com\/5836444\/black-memorial-day\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1590432284572000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFASqwls9O3JU8S8V1uVBHZl3mFOQ\">https:\/\/time.com\/5836444\/<wbr \/>black-memorial-day\/<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0 Many are unaware that\u00a0 over 200,000 African American\u00a0 Union soldiers helped save our NATION. Please\u00a0see photo of 3,000 school children who carried bouquets\u00a0of flowers and sang &#8220;John Brown&#8217;s Body&#8221; to honor captured Union\u00a0soldiers in Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 Members of the famed Union 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and other African American Union Regiments were in attendance and performed double-time marches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Memorial Day has a little known African American root. Please see\u00a0https:\/\/time.com\/5836444\/black-memorial-day\/\u00a0.\u00a0 Many are unaware that\u00a0 over 200,000 African American\u00a0 Union soldiers helped save our NATION. Please\u00a0see photo of 3,000 school children who carried bouquets\u00a0of flowers and sang &#8220;John Brown&#8217;s Body&#8221; to honor captured Union\u00a0soldiers in Charleston, South Carolina.\u00a0 Members of the famed Union 54th&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,97],"tags":[374,376,375],"class_list":["post-16607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-engagement","category-musicuntold-blog","tag-54th-massachusetts-infantry-regiment","tag-john-browns-body","tag-memorial-day","category-95","category-97","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16610,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16607\/revisions\/16610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}