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...Since Crispus Attucks fought for the 13 U.S. colonies in the Boston Massacre of 1770, many thousands of his fellow Negroes have distinguished themselves in battle. Yet it was not until 1940 that a U.S. Negro attained the rank of general. Fourteen years after General Benjamin Oliver Davis won that distinction, his son, a rangy West Pointer and bemedaled World War II fighter squadron leader, came back from the Korean War to become the first of his race to win the two stars of a major general. Now, after distinguished service as an Air Force Deputy chief of staff...
...first of two crowded funeral services, 1,000 Negroes jammed into a church in nearby Selma, site of Martin Luther King's voter-registration drive, and heard King's aide, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, declare: "Jimmie Jackson has taken his rightful place alongside such men as Crispus Attucks [a Negro shot to death by redcoats in the Boston Massacre], Abraham Lincoln, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, John Brown, Medgar Evers...
...biggest slave-trading American colonies were not Southern but Northern-Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. > The first American casualty against the British was a Negro-Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave killed in the Boston Massacre...
Between his freshman and sophomore years at the all-Negro Crispus Attucks* High School, Oscar sprouted six inches to a weedy 6 ft. 2 in. (Oscar's height, the family insists, was inherited from a 6-ft. sin. great-grandfather, who was born a slave, died in 1954 at 116, reputedly the oldest U.S. citizen.) Playing against some of the best competition in the nation, Oscar made all-state three years, led his team to a 45-game winning streak and two state championships. Says Crispus Attucks' Coach Ray Crowe: "Oscar was good enough in high school...
...power and prominence of Cas Hauser--an amoral, homosexual, and nearsighted young man on his way up. His first decision is to be married, for he senses that a beautiful young woman who is willing to seduce his professors may be a social asset. He courts and wins Aelia Crispus--the dark-haired, olive skinned, ruby lipped, full breasted, and phi beta kappa-ed Biochemistry major at Radcliffe. And to Cas's grateful surprise, he courts and wins her without ever even having to kiss...