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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 .
Crispus Attucks Museum was established at the Crispus Attucks High School in May of 1998. [2] [3] In 1990, IPS spent around $200,000 in renovations in an effort to invest in the Multicultural Education center, which included the renovation of the auxiliary gym where the museum is housed. [4]
(Attucks High School was the only public high school in Indianapolis designated specifically for African Americans.) [1] [8] Morton-Finney became head of Attucks's foreign language department, taught Greek, Latin, German, Spanish, and French, and later taught at other IPS schools, [2] [7] [6] including junior high mathematics and social studies.
Crispus Attucks holds off Kokomo, buries Brownstown Central to earn first Hall of Fame Classic title as MVP Mason Lewis scores 23
Indianapolis Public Schools also opened an all African-American high school known as Crispus Attucks High School; it was the only African-American high school in Indiana at the time. The next wave of expansion came during the 1950s and early 1960s, when unprecedented enrollment levels occurred.
David Baker, jazz musician and composer; founder and chair of Indiana University Bloomington's jazz studies program [8]; Nerissa Brokenburr Stickney, pianist and music educator [9]
This 1897 image shows the death of Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre in 1770. About 160 years later – in 1931 - a new social, educational and recreational center for Black people in York ...
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 ...