Word: crispus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time neither the President nor the First Lady replied. But the New York Times reminded the D.A.R. that they had closed their doors to one of the descendants of Crispus Attucks, first American to die in the Boston Massacre (1770). A handful of Harlem residents (called together by Powell) formed its own "People's D.A.R.," standing for "Drive Against Reaction," and booked Carnegie Hall for a Scott concert...
Crimson Network listeners who suddenly hear the spirited strains of Negro music emerge from the loudspeakers of their radios tonight at 8:45 should not think they've hit a revival meeting in full force. They are the voices of eight young Negroes from the Crispus Attucks Associates of the Cambridge Community House, singing spiritual songs chosen from their coming musical extravaganza...