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THE BLACK PLEDGE. We pledge allegiance to our great Black brothers who died for us, that we will study together, learn together, and walk together in their footsteps. There are no graves, no vaults, and no stones that can hold back their greatness. What they stood for and died for, can never be killed by bullets, racial discrimination, and ...
Bellamy had hoped that the pledge would be used by citizens in any country. In its original form it read: "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." In 1923, the words, "the Flag of the United States of America" were added. At this time it read:
Jan 16, 2002 · 1:34. We pledge allegiance of the red, black and green. Our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle, and to the land we must obtain. One nation of Black people, with one God for us all, Totally united in the struggle for Black Love, Black Freedom, and Black determination. Archive ID: 1016890.
It was first published in the juvenile periodical The Youth’s Companion on September 8, 1892, in the following form: “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and Justice for all.”. The words “the flag of the United States of America” were substituted for “my Flag ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Pledge of Allegiance is a patriotic recited verse that promises allegiance to the flag of the United States and the republic of the United States of America. The first version, with a text different from the one used at present, was written in 1885 by Captain George Thatcher Balch, a Union Army officer in the Civil War who later authored a ...
pledge of allegiance to the flag "i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
I wonder what the man who composed the original pledge 111 years ago would make of the hubbub. Francis Bellamy was a Baptist minister's son from upstate New York. Educated in public schools, he ...
