The Bellamy Salute consisted of each person – man, woman or child – extending his or her right arm straight forward, angling slightly upward, fingers pointing directly ahead.

Once a month, Life & Arts taps into the many questions received and answered by the staff of the Columbus Metropolitan Library. A sampling: A: The Bellamy salute was once a constant in American ...

The Bellamy salute was scrapped by the US Congress in 1942 and replaced with the hand-over-heart gesture amid fears it could be mistaken for the fascist salute.

Specifically, the plaintiffs acknowledge that the salute adopted by Fascists and Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s "ha [s] some similarities in appearance to the Bellamy salute" performed by Kappa Gamma.

What constitutes a “Nazi Salute” and where did it originate?The arm-up palm-down salute actually has an innocent American precursor and controversial history in the “Bellamy salute.” If ...

What is the Bellamy salute? In 1892, American Christian minister Francis Bellamy wrote the US Pledge of Allegiance to boost patriotism.

The straight-arm gesture was first popularized by the Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini. There’s no evidence of a ‘Roman salute’ in antiquity.

The Bellamy Salute was first demonstrated on Oct . 21, 1892 according to Bellamy’s published instructions for the “National School Celebration of Columbus Day” as the “400th Anniversary of ...

The Bellamy Salute consisted of each person – man, woman or child – extending his or her right arm straight forward, angling slightly upward, fingers pointing directly ahead.