by Rich Wandschneider | Oct 12, 2020 | Carib, Columbian Exchange, Columbus, Columbus Day, Doctrine of Discovery, Jim Crow, slavery
“Columbus Day” was first celebrated by Italian-Americans in San Francisco in 1869, and worked its way into a national holiday in 1937. Those of us who went to school in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and probably through the 1990s and are not of Italian heritage, remember...
