In 1891 editor and owner Daniel Ford approached Francis Bellamy to advertise and promote the sale of American flags for a national magazine. Bellamy took the job opportunity and created the Pledge of Allegiance. In 1892 the Pledge of Allegiance was published for the first time in the magazine, The Youth Companion. In 1898 New York became the first state to legislate the requirement to making it a part of a morning flag salute in schools. By 1917 pledging allegiance to the flag became a fixture of public education in America. In 1942 Congress adopted it as part of a national flag code (U.S. Code, 2013). The pledge of allegiance has been revised three times since 1942. While the focus has turned to the controversial verbiage added
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Bellamy was educated in public schools, eventually graduating from the university of Rochester. Bellamy followed in his father’s footsteps becoming vice president of Boston’s Society of Christian Socialists. He was an activist for the social gospel movement, a campaign for social, political, and economic justice (Bateman). During the Second Great Awakening Bellamy traveled to Massachusetts to promote his faith, freely. In 1891 Bellamy was hired as a publisher for The Young Companion, one of the first magazines to be published weekly to half a million households across America. The pledge of allegiance was written in 1891 by Bellamy to be published in accordance to the magazine’s commencement of the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage to America. Bellamy successfully lobbied congress to endorse a ceremony for students to recite the pledge of allegiance in unison to the American Flag. The Young Companion would profit from the sale of American Flags to schools across the nation. President Harrison declared Columbus Day a recognized holiday as a result of Bellamy’s work (Jones, …show more content…
Bellamy’s audience included school age children age 5-19. Bellamy’s plan was to write the pledge suitable for memory and reputation. The patriotic program created by Bellamy was sought to promote allegiance, and loyalty through the words of the pledge. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in abstract terms by Bellamy to be used by any country, without prejudice. The strategy of reciting the pledge in public school systems instilled American ideals and values into immigrant children traveling to the U.S. amongst other segregated social classes newly entering into the public school system (Dorn, 2017). Bellamy believed state and religion should be separate. All though he was a Baptist preacher, he refrained from adding a religious reference to the Pledge of Allegiance, in anticipation that all people despite religion would accept the pledge as their
Bellamy was educated in public schools, eventually graduating from the university of Rochester. Bellamy followed in his father’s footsteps becoming vice president of Boston’s Society of Christian Socialists. He was an activist for the social gospel movement, a campaign for social, political, and economic justice (Bateman). During the Second Great Awakening Bellamy traveled to Massachusetts to promote his faith, freely. In 1891 Bellamy was hired as a publisher for The Young Companion, one of the first magazines to be published weekly to half a million households across America. The pledge of allegiance was written in 1891 by Bellamy to be published in accordance to the magazine’s commencement of the 400th anniversary of Columbus’s voyage to America. Bellamy successfully lobbied congress to endorse a ceremony for students to recite the pledge of allegiance in unison to the American Flag. The Young Companion would profit from the sale of American Flags to schools across the nation. President Harrison declared Columbus Day a recognized holiday as a result of Bellamy’s work (Jones, …show more content…
Bellamy’s audience included school age children age 5-19. Bellamy’s plan was to write the pledge suitable for memory and reputation. The patriotic program created by Bellamy was sought to promote allegiance, and loyalty through the words of the pledge. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in abstract terms by Bellamy to be used by any country, without prejudice. The strategy of reciting the pledge in public school systems instilled American ideals and values into immigrant children traveling to the U.S. amongst other segregated social classes newly entering into the public school system (Dorn, 2017). Bellamy believed state and religion should be separate. All though he was a Baptist preacher, he refrained from adding a religious reference to the Pledge of Allegiance, in anticipation that all people despite religion would accept the pledge as their