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[1monicaowens]

#March7th #BlackHistoryContinues The obituaries of Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell and Crispus Attucks, four of the five colonials shot dead by British soldiers at the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770. Four coffins bearing a skull and crossbones motif decorate the broadside article, published by American engraver Paul Revere. #CrispusAttucks 💥 He was honored as a hero after death. In death, Attucks was afforded honors that no person of color—particularly one who had escaped slavery—probably had ever received before in America. As Egerton notes, Samuel Adams organized a procession to transport Attucks’ casket to Boston’s Faneuil Hall, where Attucks lay in state for three days before the victims’ public funeral. According to historians William Bruce Wheeler and Lorri Glover, an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 people—more than half of Boston’s population—joined in the procession that carried the caskets of Attucks and the other victims to the graveyard. According to Eric Hinderaker’s book Boston’s Massacre, Attucks became a symbol in the 1840s for African American activists in the abolitionist movement, who promoted him as an example of a Black citizen and a patriot, and that image stuck. As civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in 1964, Black schoolchildren “know that the first American to shed blood in the revolution that freed his country from British oppression was a Black seaman named Crispus Attucks.” Today, schools and public parks are named after Attucks, and his face has appeared on a commemorative silver dollar #formerslave #multiracial #bostanmassacre #shottwiceinchest #toughfearlessstreetfighter #bigmaninstature #seaman #🖤 #foughtforindependence #blackhistory #commemorativesilverdollar (at Gainesville, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMGvJurj0zKDOpaH22ezKN060qk_zS35aaC-9w0/?igshid=1uqxpru111pza