This is a good moment to explore Crispus Attucks in 2020, the 250th anniversary year of the Boston Massacre, and how his name has been part of important movements in history. And in York County ...

Crispus Attucks overcame the efforts of one of the most powerful men in IHSAA history, who for 16 years banned it from the boys basketball tournament.

"Crispus Attucks was a black man and the first person killed during the Boston Massacre that started the Revolutionary War," said Jeff Nadeau, 45, a health care industry worker in Los Angeles County.

Crispus Attucks, a sailor of African and Native American descent who lived in the Boston area, is considered the first person killed in the American Revolution and he became an icon in the anti ...

Crispus Attucks -- a half African, half Native American former enslaved person -- was the first to be shot and killed by British troops during the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770.

News As America confronts racism, death of Crispus Attucks - a black man gunned down by a British soldier in the Boston Massacre - is recalled Updated: Jun. 05, 2020, 7:58 a.m.

In fact, many credit the onset of the American Revolutionary War to the Boston Massacre that occurred on March 5, 1770 when Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave of African and Native American heritage ...

Born in 1938, Howell said Crispus Attucks was a major part of his life. "We had a basketball league that played against other community leagues of color, as well as dances and tutoring after school.

Crispus Attucks Tigers Nike Sibande (22),right, Zac Owens (12),left, after winning the IHSAA 3A Boys Basketball State Finals game Saturday, March 25, 2017, evening at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. The ...

Plumley says the museum will focus on Crispus Attucks York's one-year anniversary by celebrating its history as well as historical moments such as the 1969 York race riot.

Attucks went 0-8 and was outscored 242-34. IPS restored the Crispus Attucks high school in 2006, but not football. For 10 years nobody seemed to care.

Fabian Romero serves breakfast during a community meal at Crispus Attucks Community Center on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023.