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First martyr of liberty : Crispus Attucks in American memory / Mitch Kachun.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.A86 K33 2017
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kachun, Mitchell A. (Mitchell Alan), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Attucks, Crispus, -1770--Influence.
- Attucks, Crispus.
- Attucks, Crispus, -1770.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Revolutionaries--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Boston Massacre, 1770.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 308 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kachun, Mitchell A. (Mitchell Alan). First martyr of liberty.
- ISBN:
- 9780199731619
- 0199731616
- OCLC:
- 975367767
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