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Crispus Attucks (c. 1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution.
Crispus Attucks High School (also known as Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School) is a public high school of Indianapolis Public Schools in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Its namesake, Crispus Attucks (c.1723 – March 5, 1770), was an African American patriot killed during the Boston Massacre .
As in the war of the American Revolution, the first blood shed was a black man's, Crispus Attucks', so at Harpers Ferry, the first blood shed by our party, after the arrival of the United States troops, was that of a slave. In the beginning of the encounter, and before the troops had fairly emerged from the bridge, a slave was shot.
Crispus Attucks holds off Kokomo, buries Brownstown Central to earn first Hall of Fame Classic title as MVP Mason Lewis scores 23
John Hardrick painted 20th-century Indianapolis and a lost mural for Crispus Attucks. Now Norwood, the Freetown where he grew up, wants to honor him.
The family is asking for funds to help a 5-year-old boy who was left an orphan on Friday, Dec. 27, after his father Darius Seay, 44, killed his estranged wife, Adriene Seay (who was the boy's ...
Bill and Betty Garrett were the parents of four children, which included three daughters, Tina, Judith, and Laurie, and a son, William "Billy." The Garretts' daughters "became the first African Americans to compete in open swimming competitions in Indianapolis and became nationally ranked swimmers." [8] Billy Garrett Jr. is his grandson. [9]
At the end of the episode, Hancock brings in the Crispus Attucks character and tells Tracy he does have black friends. When Hancock says he met Attucks in 1775, Tracy is able to one up him as he knows that Attucks was killed in the Boston Massacre in 1770.