National Wide Awakes Day – October 3, 2022, history, significance National Wide Awakes Day is held every October 3. It celebrates the Wide Awakes, a youth organization and, later, paramilitary organization fostered by the Republican Party, specifically the Lincoln campaign, during the United States’ all-important presidential election in 1860. It was an open-source network of people who believed in the emancipation of all, abolition, and workers’ rights. Despite adversity, false accusations, and several conspiracies to bring them down, the group’s revolutionary members continued to march on. HISTORY OF NATIONAL WIDE…
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