Description:
Brief history of the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770), in which "British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd killing four civilians. ... The only victim of the Boston Massacre whose name became widely known, [African American sailor] Crispus Attucks was memorialized as the first hero of the American Revolution." Features links to related Library of Congress material. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. |