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Category: Past Reflecting Attucks Events

VIDEO | Attucks and the Birth of a Nation

Posted on January 27, 2021February 2, 2021 by Revolutionary Spaces
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JAN 27: How William Monroe Trotter, a prominent Black Boston activist, protested the white nationalist film by invoking the memory of Crispus Attucks.

VIDEO | Monumental Attucks

Posted on November 10, 2020January 29, 2021 by Revolutionary Spaces
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NOV 10: African American leaders in late 19th century Boston fought to create a lasting monument to Crispus Attucks on Boston Common.

VIDEO | Demanding Freedom: Attucks and the Abolition Movement

Posted on October 20, 2020January 29, 2021 by Revolutionary Spaces
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19th presented Attucks as the first martyr of the Revolution who died fighting for liberty, an image that resonated powerfully with those seeking emancipation for African Americans.

Video | Imagining Attucks

Posted on September 29, 2020January 29, 2021 by Revolutionary Spaces
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Explores how Attucks has been interpreted through the years and grapples with the challenges that come with bringing Attucks to life.

Video | Liberty & Sovereignty in 18th Century New England

Posted on September 22, 2020January 29, 2021 by Revolutionary Spaces
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Examining the political conversations that were taking place around the time of the Boston Massacre among white colonists and the African- and Native-descended communities.

Video | Man of Many Worlds Online Panel

Posted on September 16, 2020January 29, 2021 by Revolutionary Spaces
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A lively discussion about Attucks’s Afro-Indian community and reflect on the experiences he might have had that informed his thinking about resistance and protest and ultimately brought him to King Street on the night of the Boston Massacre.

Video | Discovering Crispus – A Play in Process

Posted on June 26, 2020January 29, 2021 by Revolutionary Spaces
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Exploring how the memory of Attucks has inspired generations of activists to fight for social change.

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