Attucks

American  

[at-uhks] / ˈæt əks /

noun

1. Crispus 1723?–70, American patriot, sailor of African and American Indian ancestry, killed in the Boston Massacre.

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Attucks

Some activists suggested the building could instead honor Crispus Attucks, a Black man considered the first American killed in the Revolutionary War.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

Then there’s Crispus Attucks, who is best known as a victim in the Boston Massacre of 1770 and is often portrayed as the first martyr of the American Revolution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

“Unfortunately, there are still a lot of them out there,” Bowser said at the news conference at Crispus Attucks Park in Northwest Washington’s Bloomingdale neighborhood.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021

We had lessons on the Emancipation Proclamation, the Ku Klux Klan, Rosa Parks’s daring heroism and her common decency and even the death of Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre.

From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2021

One statue in the Boston Commons astonished me: a Negro named Crispus Attucks, who had been the first man to fall in the Boston Massacre.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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