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Author:
Kachun, Mitchell A. (Mitchell Alan), author.
Title:
First martyr of liberty : Crispus Attucks in American memory / Mitch Kachun.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
pages cm
Subject:
Attucks, Crispus,---1770--Influence.
Attucks, Crispus,---1770.
Boston Massacre (1770)
African Americans--Biography.
Revolutionaries--Boston--Boston--Biography.
Boston Massacre, 1770.
African Americans.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Revolutionaries.
Massachusetts--Boston.
1770
Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Who was this man? -- The dustbin of history: Crispus Attucks and American amnesia, 1770s-1840s -- First martyr of liberty: Crispus Attucks and the struggle for citizenship in the Civil War era -- Crispus Attucks meets Jim Crow: the segregation of American memory, 1870s-1910s -- Crispus Attucks meets the new Negro: Black history and Black heroes between the world wars -- Crispus Attucks meets Dorie Miller: Black patriotism and activism in the World War II era -- Crispus Attucks and the Black freedom struggle, 1950s-1970s -- Crispus Attucks from the bicentennial to the culture wars, 1970s-1990s -- Crispus Attucks in twenty-first century America.
ISBN:
0199731616
9780199731619
OCLC:
(OCoLC)975367767
LCCN:
2017003265
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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