Who is Cripus Attucks?

Answer 1

Crispus Attucks

(b. circa 1723; d. 1770)

Death during Boston Massacre

Runaway slave turned sailor

African and Natick Indian

Remembered as the "First to die in the American Revolution,"

A poet, John Boyle O Reilly, wrote of Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre

"And honor to Crispus Attucks,

who was leader and voice that day;

The first to defy

and the first to die,

with Maverick, Carr, and Gray.

It riot or revolution,

or mob or crowd as you may,

such deaths have been seeds of nations,

such lives shall be honored for ay."

Answer 2

crispus attucks was a man who fought in the Boston massacre and was one of the efird people to die in it.He died by t he gas chamber,the gas chamber is a little room that sprays out gas that makes you die in a painful way!

in honor of attucks African American milatart companies name their soldiers attucks guards,comunitie schools are named after them,the first statue paid for with comunitie in masachusits money was of him.

NO ONE FOR SURE KNOWS IF CRISPUS ATTUCKS HAD ANY FAMILY SINCE MOST BLACK PEOPLE WERE SLAVES BACK THEN LEAVING NO TIME TO FIND OR COMMUNICATE WITH ANY OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS KNOWN OR NOT KNOWN OF. BUT TO ARE KNOWLEADGE HE HAD AN OLDER SISTER NAMED PHEBIE.2 b continued tomoro

Who is the nut who dreamed this up?? I thought Wiki was to be a place with real facts not crazy stuff like this.

In 1770, Crispus Attucks, a black man, became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre.

Answer 3

an african american who died in the boston massacre

Answer 4

Crispus Attucks was a free black sailor slave that was shot during the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre was a bloody battle between seven British guards and a mob of angry colonists.

Answer 5

He was the first to die in the rvolutionary war. He died in the Boston Massacare

Answer 6

he was one of the first men to die in the revolutionary war. he is significant because he was a freed slave who got killed in the Boston massacre.

Answer 7

Crispus Attucks: born 1723?? died March 5, 1770.

He is believed to have been a runaway slave. He is one of a very few victims of the Boston Massacre who is remembered by name.