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  2. Crispus Attucks - Wikipedia

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    "Crispus Attucks, the first blasted" is a line from Nas's 2008 song "You Can't Stop Us Now". The poet John Boyle O'Reilly wrote the following poem when the monument was finally unveiled: And to honor Crispus Attucks who was the leader and voice that day: The first to defy, and the first to die, with Maverick, Carr, and Gray.

  3. The Lost Evidence - Wikipedia

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    The Lost Evidence is a television program on the History Channel which uses three-dimensional landscapes, reconnaissance photos, eyewitness testimony and documents to reevaluate and recreate key battles of World War II. The entire series was made up of 23 fifty-minute episodes with the exception of the D-Day episode, which is 100 minutes in ...

  4. William Cooper Nell - Wikipedia

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    The Centennial Anniversary of the Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770: The Day Which History Selects As the Dawn of the American Revolution, Signalized by the Patriotic Leadership and Martyrdom of Crispus Attucks Will Be Commemorated on Monday Evening, March 7th, 1870 in Joy Street Church. Boston: s.n. 1858. OCLC 83299260. Nell, William Cooper (1860).

  5. 12 O'Clock High (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    12 O'Clock High is an American military drama television series set in World War II. It was originally broadcast on ABC-TV for two-and-one-half TV seasons from September 1964 through January 1967 and was based on the 1949 film of the same name.

  6. The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The first chapter focuses on Massachusetts patriots, such as Crispus Attucks who is considered the first casualty of the American Revolution. As well as the African-Americans on Bunker Hill; such as Seymour Burr, Jeremy Jonah, James and Hosea Easton, Job Lewis, Jack Grove, Bosson Wright, and Phillis Wheatley.

  7. Boston African American National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    In 1770, Crispus Attucks, an escaped slave, was the first colonist killed in Boston Massacre. He was a national symbol of black men, like the black Revolutionary War soldiers, who helped bring a free nation into being. 1783 Slavery abolished in 1783 in Massachusetts. Quock Walker, an escaped slave, sued for his liberty in 1783.

  8. The Revolution (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    The Revolution [1] (also known as The American Revolution) is a 2006 American miniseries from The History Channel composed of thirteen episodes which track the American Revolution from the Boston Massacre through the Treaty of Paris, which declared America's independence from Great Britain. The series is narrated by Edward Herrmann.

  9. WWII in HD - Wikipedia

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    World War II in HD is a History Channel television series that chronicles the hardships of World War II, using rare films shot in color never seen on television before.The episodes premiered on five consecutive days in mid-November 2009, with two episodes per day.