Columbus Day is an accident of history.

Question

In 1892, the Italians in American needed someone to represent their nationality belonged in American society, history, and culture.

Answer 1

While the holiday of Columbus Day is widely celebrated for the wrong reasons, the true sentiment of the holiday is innocent. "Columbus Day was founded by President Benjamin Harrison in 1892 in response to the horrific, xenophobic attack that took the lives of 11 Italian Americans the year before (whitehouse.gov). Harrisons proclamation was a symbol of progress, to encourage tolerance of immigrants. From the source you provided, it argues that "...Columbus was an almost coincidental part of the first federal observation of Columbus Day" (Goodyear). The settlement of indigenous land is not the holidays intent, but the acceptance of all Americans generational roots.