The History of Thanksgiving in America 1
The History of Thanksgiving in America 1
The most familiar story of the first Thanksgiving took place in Plimouth [Plymouth] Colony, in present-day Massachusetts, in 1621.
Sarah Josepha Hale, the enormously influential magazine editor and author who waged a tireless campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday in the mid-19th century, was also the author of the classic nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”
More than 200 years after the first Thanksgiving, in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving.
Congress finally made Thanksgiving Day an official national holiday in 1941.
Many people also get the day after, Thanksgiving Friday, also known as Black Friday, as an additional holiday.
It is called Black Friday because many retailers hope to be out of the red and into the black thanks to consumer shopping on this day.
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