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Five were killed and thousands of colonists were even angrier than they were before

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Many public facilities, (schools, museums, community centers etc) adopted the name "Crispus Attucks"

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"Crispus Attucks Day" was created on the day of his death for remembrance and respect in 1858

Martin Luther King Jr referenced him in his book "Why We Cant Wait" which is about black segregation.

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Crispus led a group of angry colonists to taunt British troops

The colonists did not want troops in their colonies

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The Boston Massacre was a major contribution of anger which started the Revolutionary war

Attucks was the "First American to die in the colonists fight for freedom"

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"The First martyr of the American Revolution"

Attucks was the first one to die during the Boston massacre in 1770

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He was born in 1723 in Framingham, MA

He was a son of Prince Yonger, a slave and Nancy Attuck, a natick Indian.

He was a former slave who ran away from his master William Brown to later become a seaman

He used name Michael Johnson as an alias to hid from his master