A Day for Rememberin'

By Leah Henderson, Floyd Cooper (illustrator),

Book cover of A Day for Rememberin': Inspired by the True Events of the First Memorial Day

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A moving tribute to the little-known history behind the first Memorial Day, illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award winner Floyd Cooper

Today is a special day. Eli knows it's important if he's allowed to miss one second of school, his "hard-earned right."
Inspired by true events and told through theā€¦

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1 author picked A Day for Rememberin' as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I am an absolute sucker for origin stories about American subjects, and especially origin stories that I should know and donā€™t. Plus, I love anything and everything that Floyd Cooper illustrated, so that book hits all the right notes for me.

I was taken right away by the young narrator, who participates in Americaā€™s first Memorial Day, and astonished to hear that like so many things that matter in Americaā€”including the Tomb of the Unknown Soldierā€”Memorial Day came about by popular acclaim.

That the first one was organized by former slaves in South Carolina not even a month after theā€¦

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