The second Monday in October is is still a federal holiday...but in 2020, this state swapped out the controversial explorer for America's first canonized saint.
Today is Columbus Day in those states that still celebrate the federal holiday on the second Monday of October. at the urging of Angelo Noce, an Italian immigrant who was the founder of Colorado's first Italian newspaper,. Soon many other states followed suit. In 1937, after heavy lobbying from the Knights of Columbus, President Franklin Roosevelt made October 12 a holiday honoring Columbus; the second Monday in October became a formal federal holiday in 1968.
For years, Denver was the site of protests over Columbus Day, with organizers arguing that the explorer was no one to honor. , was active in those demonstrations and sums up the objections with this: “First, it is a holiday that celebrates Columbus, who was an African slave trader and who then also began the genocide against indigenous peoples in the Caribbean. He deserves no holidays, statues, or celebrations. Second, Columbus Day celebrates the invasion and colonization of the Americas, through the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, which is a U.S.
Colorado was decades behind Denver in dumping Columbus Day, which in 2001 switched it out for César Chávez Day, now an official city holiday on the last Monday of March. Because of that, when then-Denver City Councilman Paul Lopez offered an ordinance in 2016 making the second Monday of October Indigenous Peoples' Day in Denver, it did not come with any official holiday perks, so Denver government is still operating today.
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