What began as a verse to honor Columbus Day evolved into a daily ritual for schoolchildren that has had many iterations—including one with questionable hand gestures.
of Christopher Columbus’ voyage to the New World. At the same time, millions of immigrants from Europe were arriving on U.S shores.
: “I pledge allegiance to my flag and the Republic for which it stands—one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” At the time, Bellamy was working in the marketing department of a popular family magazine calledUnder other circumstances, that likely would’ve been the end of the pledge. But a few factors gave it staying power.
New York, in 1898, became the first to legislate that children salute the flag at the beginning of each school day. From there, other states followed suit.Over the next few decades, the pledge became fully embedded in American public schools, fueled especially by the nationalist, “almost xenophobic” sentiment that developed around World War I, says Dorn.
After their public school expelled them, the Gobitases filed suit against the school district. Though lower courts initially sided with the children, the school board appealed and, eventually, the case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court. By then, it was 1940 andwere threatening democracy all over Europe.
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