| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| Summary |
First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in the role of African Americans in the mainstream American historical narrative from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 15, 2020) |
| Subject |
Attucks, Crispus, -1770 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Attucks, Crispus, -1770 fast |
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African Americans -- Biography
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Revolutionaries -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography
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Boston Massacre, 1770.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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African Americans
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Revolutionaries
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Massachusetts -- Boston
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017017106 |
| ISBN |
9780199875726 |
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0199875723 |
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9780190693510 |
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0190693517 |
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