Today In Black History: Crispus Attucks

On this date in 1770 Crispus Attucks became the first man killed during the Boston Massacre. Attucks was not only the first black, but first person to die in the cause of America’s freedom from Britain. Cripus was the first of over 5,000 other blacks who also fought in the American Revolution on the colonists side.

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