Crispus Attucks

She had knowledge of the clarinet, but more importantly she had a closet full of good-as-new sound equipment that had been abandoned by a son who once had led a somewhat successful local rock band that went by the name of Crispus Attucks.

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

She had knowledge of the clarinet, but more importantly she had a closet full of good-as-new sound equipment that had been abandoned by a son who once had led a somewhat successful local rock band that went by the name of Crispus Attucks.

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

I remember vividly my comrades, and one of the reasons I show up every year is because this is my way to salute them and their memory, and also, going all the way back to the very beginning, I placed my first rose on my first hero, and that is a man called Crispus Attucks, an African-American, who was the first to die in the American Revolution.

CNN Transcript May 25, 2003 2003

Ask them about African-American heroes from that same era and there's a good chance they can name Crispus Attucks, one of the first five colonists killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre in March 1770 and the first black man to die in the struggle for America's freedom.

The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories By THERESA WALKER 2010

Ask them about African-American heroes from that same era and there's a good chance they can name Crispus Attucks, one of the first five colonists killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre in March 1770 and the first black man to die in the struggle for America's freedom.

The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories By THERESA WALKER 2010

Ask them about African-American heroes from that same era and there's a good chance they can name Crispus Attucks, one of the first five colonists killed by British soldiers in the Boston Massacre in March 1770 and the first black man to die in the struggle for America's freedom.

The Orange County Register - News Headlines : Top Stories By THERESA WALKER 2010

By the following Monday, however, the same man was being identified as Crispus Attucks, and that's how he's come down to us in the historical records.

Boston 1775 2009

He pictured the Negro choosing slavery rather than extinction; recalled Crispus Attucks shedding his blood at the beginning of the American Revolution, that white Americans might be free, while black Americans remained in slavery; rehearsed the conduct of the Negroes with Jackson at New Orleans; drew a vivid and pathetic picture of the Southern slaves protecting and supporting the families of their masters while the latter were fighting to perpetuate black slavery; recounted the bravery of coloured troops at Port Hudson and Forts Wagner and Pillow, and praised the heroism of the black regiments that stormed El Caney and Santiago to give freedom to the enslaved people of Cuba, forgetting, for the time being, the unjust discrimination that law and custom make against them in their own country.

Up From Slavery Washington, Booker T 1901

Everyone knows the story of Crispus Attucks being one of the first to die for the idea of America at the Boston Massacre, but few know that blacks also fought on both sides of the American Revolution.

Chris Weigant: Memorializing Second-Class Soldiers 2010

Here, from Crispus Attucks to Barack Obama, from the civil war to civil rights, from gospel to Jazz and R&B in all it's permutations, from Birth of a Nation to the Jazz Singer and beyond, from Jesse Owens to OJ Simpson, the critical narrative thread is black.

Adam Neiman: Obama and the Jewish Question 2009