A daily drop of Good Black News offers quick, inspiring facts about people, events, culture, history, organizations or landmarks along with quotes, jokes, games and trivia from goodblacknews.org and the Page-A-Day Calendar for 2022 by Lori Lakin Hutcherson and Workman Publishing. Cover Design by Jeronimo Sochaczewski.
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30 May 2022
GBN Daily Drop for May 30, 2022: Memorial Day and its African American Origins
Memorial Day, an American national holiday dedicated to the memory of fallen US soldiers, is celebrated on the last Monday of May. Its beginnings however, started on the first day of May in 1865, when by a group of newly liberated Blacks in Charleston, South Carolina placed flowers on the unmarked graves of captured Union soldiers and held a parade to honor the dead.
To learn more about what was originally known as "Decoration Day", check out the links to sources below:
https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston (https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston)
https://www.lx.com/black-legacy/dont-overlook-memorial-days-black-southern-roots/53453/ (https://www.lx.com/black-legacy/dont-overlook-memorial-days-black-southern-roots/53453/)
https://www.live5news.com/2020/02/18/charleston-claims-first-memorial-day-celebration-with-african-americans-playing-significant-role/ (https://www.live5news.com/2020/02/18/charleston-claims-first-memorial-day-celebration-with-african-americans-playing-significant-role/)
https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2022/05/28/freed-slaves-started-first-memorial-day-in-the-us/ (https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2022/05/28/freed-slaves-started-first-memorial-day-in-the-us/)
https://aaregistry.org/story/the-first-american-memorial-day-is-commemorated/ (https://aaregistry.org/story/the-first-american-memorial-day-is-commemorated/)
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13 May 2022
GBN Daily Drop for May 12, 2022: Mary Eliza Mahoney, 1st African American Licensed Nurse in U.S.
Born in 1879, Mary Eliza Mahoney worked hard for nearly two decades to earn her nursing license, overcoming discrimination to become the first African American person to do so in the United States. To learn more about Boston-born and based Mahoney, read Mary Eliza Mahoney and the Legacy of African-American Nurses (https://amzn.to/3LiaIMN), watch a short bio on YouTube (https://youtu.be/_M4jaCE0LAc) or check out the links to more sources below.
Sources:
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-mahoney (https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-mahoney)
https://www.essence.com/black-history-month-2019/mary-eliza-mahoney-the-first-black-nurse/ (https://www.essence.com/black-history-month-2019/mary-eliza-mahoney-the-first-black-nurse/)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/obituaries/mary-eliza-mahoney-overlooked.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/19/obituaries/mary-eliza-mahoney-overlooked.html)
https://nursing-theory.org/famous-nurses/Mary-Mahoney.php (https://nursing-theory.org/famous-nurses/Mary-Mahoney.php)
https://www.biography.com/activist/mary-mahoney (https://www.biography.com/activist/mary-mahoney)
http://ojin.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/Honoring-Nurses/NationalAwardsProgram/HallofFame/19761982/mahome5552.html (http://ojin.nursingworld.org/FunctionalMenuCategories/AboutANA/Honoring-Nurses/NationalAwardsProgram/HallofFame/19761982/mahome5552.html)
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