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And yet, as so often happens when the contributions of Black Americans intersect with the making of national memory, the record was altered. The act of founding—the first Memorial Day—was obscured, reattributed, covered over by another version.
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Image: General John A. Logan, Commander and Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Given official credit for establishing the first Memorial Day, May 30, 1868.
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