Day 3 Black History Month 2021 - Crispus Attucks

Crispus Attucks (circa 1723 – March 5, 1770)
 
For day three of Black History Month, we’d like to highlight Crispus Attucks, a former slave, turned sailor and the first martyr of the American Revolution. History.com wrote an article entitled, “8 Things We Know About Crispus Attucks” the excerpt below provides a solid summary of who he was and the sacrifice he made. Even from the beginning, We’ve Been Protesting.
 
“On the evening of March 5, 1770, British troops fired into a crowd of angry American colonists in Boston who had taunted and violently harassed them. Five colonists were killed. The event, which became known as the Boston Massacre, helped fuel the outrage against British rule—and spurred on the American Revolution.
 
Among those killed by the British, the first victim was a middle-aged sailor and rope-maker of mixed African American and American Indian descent named Crispus Attucks, accounts suggest. Attucks has been celebrated not just as one of the first martyrs in what became the fight for American independence, but also as a symbol of African Americans’ struggle for freedom and equality.”
 
References: history.com “8 Things We Know About Crispus Attucks”

Books: First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory

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