It concerned the Pledge of Allegiance – specifically, something called the Bellamy Salute. Most people today have likely never heard of it, but the Bellamy Salute was once a constant part of the ...

As the pledge quickly became popular, a magazine called the Youth Companion, where Bellamy worked, decided to create a salute ...

The US Pledge of Allegiance, where Americans swear loyalty to their flag, was originally accompanied by the "Bellamy salute," ...

Though invented by his aide James Upham, the Bellamy salute is named for the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, a Baptist minister named Francis Bellamy who pushed to get flags and the pledge ...

So was it a Hitler salute or wasn’t it? Speaking at President Trump’s inauguration event this week, Elon Musk slapped his right hand on his chest before shooting his arm diagonally upward ...

The plaintiffs acknowledge that the fraternity's former salute, known as the "Bellamy salute," "ha[s] some similarities in appearance" to that used by "Italian Fascist[s] and German Nazis." ...

That salute would form the basis of the Pledge of Allegiance. There’s long been a debate about who exactly wrote it, but its author is believed to be Francis Bellamy, 37-year-old Baptist ...

Such robes have been common at colleges and universities, they say. The salute members performed is a Bellamy salute, they said. The Bellamy salute originated in 1901 and was used in the U.S. to ...

The Bellamy Salute was used as an example of a symbol whose meaning dramatically changed. The salute was named for Francis Bellamy, the writer of the Pledge of Allegiance, originating in 1892.