On this day in 1770, Crispus Attucks was killed in the Boston Massacre. It was one of the conflicts that led to the Declaration of Independence. For that reason, he is generally accepted as the first martyr of the American Revolution.
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On this day in 1897 in Washington, DC, the American Negro Academy was born. Its sole aim was to support the scholarly and publishing of studies on Black life in America.
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