Attucks was arguably the first casualty in the country's struggle for independence from Britain. Like George Floyd, Attucks was in his mid-40s when he died at the hands of a white man.

As America confronts racism, death of Crispus Attucks - a black man gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre - is recalled Updated: Jun. 05, 2020, 7:58 a.m. | Published: Jun. 05 ...

Crispus Attucks — an African American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre of 1770 — is a symbol of entrenched white-on-black violence and oppression.

Poignantly, if somewhat improbably, “Crispus Attucks” was trending on Twitter this week. Attucks, of African and Native American descent, and four other men died on March 5, 1770, after ...

Many in the Black Lives Matter movement are invoking Crispus Attucks — an African American gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre of 1770 — as a symbol of entrenched white-on ...

Crispus Attucks was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770—and became known as the first fatality in the fight for American independence. In a poem memorializing the ...

THE CRISPUS ATTUCKS MEMORIAL. Share full article. May 29, 1887. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 29, 1887, Page 12 Buy Reprints.

What is not often told during those tours: The soldiers who killed protester Crispus Attucks were acquitted of murder in part because their defense attorney — future president John Adams — argued that ...

On the hardwood, Crispus Attucks emerged as one of the top basketball programs in the state under head coach Ray Crowe, who took over the program in 1950.