Word: crispus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there are the two great outcast groups, women and blacks, making surprise appearances in the Bicentennial listings. No matter how many times Crispus Attucks is mentioned, the fact remains that, for blacks, the Bicentennial marks the first time the Afro-American population of this country got shafted by an American government. And while women are busily digging up their own Bicentennial heroes--did you know there was a female Paul Revere named Sibyl Ludington--they shouldn't forget that there's a good reason for the phrase Founding Fathers...
...always told in elementary school that Crispus Attacks was the first person killed in the Revolutionary War-at the Boston Massacre, to be exact. Now my friend the American History major tells me that revisionist historians are now claiming this is no longer true. Which makes the exhibit that just opened at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts all the more appropriate. It's called The Black presence in the Era of the American Revolution: 1700-1800. It's an interesting topic that most scholars seem to have an opinion on but nobody researches. Through March...
...could be a man, so did I come to Harvard. I came to Harvard because I had had enough of the bad white people out at Drake. I wanted to go where the good white people were--the land of Garrison and Beecher Stowe. Where Fred Douglass escaped. Where Crispus Attucks thought life was good enough to sacrifice his life for Independence. To the school that educated DuBois and Trotter. Yes, I came to this land and its "greatest liberal institution". I came because I thought I could be a free man here, at least have more freedom that...