• @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
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    138 months ago

    Ok was it actually called that before emancipation? I can’t help but feel like actually calling it that was more of a cold war-ism

    • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N
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      128 months ago

      Star Spangled Banner was written in 1814, so yes. It wasn’t adopted as the US natl anthem until 1931, but race relations were hardly a thing of the past at that point either.