Attucks
Americannoun
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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
Other Attucks Adams tours include a “rights walk” down Pennsylvania Avenue that focuses on the emancipation of enslaved D.C. residents and a suffragist parade demanding the right to vote for women.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2022
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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