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I think it's interesting that Columbus Day is a Federal holiday only because of a successful identity politics movement to elevate the poor societal standing of many Catholics, especially Italian-American ones, that came to the U.S. in the late 19th/early 20th century immigrant flood. From history.com
I found more detail at Wikipedia:
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 12:57pm
There is an excellent article on how the Italians became white in the NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage
by rmrd0000 on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 1:17pm
P.S. I just clicked on the first footnote in my wikipedia quote and the citation is to a piece that was published only two days ago: How Italians Became ‘White'. Vicious Bigotry, Reluctant Acceptance: An American Story.by Brent Staples a member of the editorial board) @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 12, 2019....The federal holiday honoring the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus — celebrated on Monday — was central to the process through which Italian-Americans were fully ratified as white during the 20th century. The rationale for the holiday was steeped in myth, and allowed Italian-Americans to write a laudatory portrait of themselves into the civic record....
by artappraiser on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 1:22pm
Though Columbus might have been Catalonian, but easier to pass as foreign.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/14/2019 - 2:24pm