pledge of allegiance in public schools

The pledge of allegiance has always been a patriotic chant used by Americans in times of happiness and in times of distress. The pledge was first written by a Baptist minister names Francis Bellamy in 1892, and was published in the family magazine of the time called The Youth’s Companion. As the chairman of a committee of state superintendent of education, Bellamy prepared the program of the public schools’ celebration for Columbus Day in 1892. He structured the program around the American flag raising salute to his “pledge of allegiance.” This is how the pledge first came into being a custom of recitation in our modern public schools.
As time went on and the pledge continued to be recited, phrases were changed and added on to fit the times. Bellamy’s ‘My flag’ was transformed ‘to the flag of the United States of America’ in 1923 by the National Flag Conference. In 1954 two words were added to the pledge by President Eisenhower and Congress that would make the pledg...