Fighting for Change Content

In Boston, Attucks’s legacy became a powerful tool for Black leaders facing white backlash against desegregation.

A new generation of activists invokes Attucks’s story to challenge white supremacists at the turn of the 20th century.

As Black communities faced new threats and challenges following the Civil War, Black Bostonians took up the cause of creating a monument to secure Attucks’s legacy.

Presented as the first martyr of the Revolution, Attucks’s legacy is revived to serve the cause of abolition.

Attucks’s death at the Boston Massacre became a rallying point on the road to Revolution.