Editing Pledge of Allegiance (section)

=== Contested Authorship of the Pledge ===
An alternative theory is that the pledge was submitted to an 1890 patriotic competition in ''The Youth's Companion'' by a 13-year-old Kansas schoolboy, coincidentally named Frank E. Bellamy. A May 1892 newspaper from [[Hays, Kansas]] reported on an April 30 school flag-raising that was accompanied by an almost identical pledge.<ref>{{multiref|{{cite web |title=Pledge of Allegiance (1892). |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96314797/pledge-of-allegiance-1892/ |website=Ellis County News Republican |publisher=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=February 24, 2022 |pages=4 |date=May 21, 1892 |quote=I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands; one nation inseparable with liberty and justice for all. |archive-date=February 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224161952/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/96314797/pledge-of-allegiance-1892/ |url-status=live }}|{{cite tweet|user=barrypopik|number=1496783059756195841|date=February 24, 2022|title="Pledge of Allegiance" on April 30, 1892?}}}}</ref><ref name="Roberts2022" /> This ceremony would have taken place months before Francis supposedly created the pledge during August of that same year, according to his own testimony.<ref name="Roberts2022" /> The discovery was made by the noted amateur lexicographer [[Barry Popik]], who collaborated with [[Fred Shapiro]], an associate library director at the Yale School of Law.<ref name="Roberts2022" /> Shapiro previously attributed the pledge to Francis Bellamy in ''[[The Yale Book of Quotations]]'', which he edits, but now regards Popik's discovery as favoring Frank E. Bellamy rather than Francis Bellamy as the originator and intends to update future versions of the book to reflect this.<ref name="Roberts2022" />