The First American to die for Freedom and Equality was a runaway African-American slave named Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre in 1770. Ironically for him and his race of men and women, TRUE freedom and equality wouldn't come until 1965 with Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Thursday, July 24, 2008
The First American To Die For Freedom and Equality
The First American to die for Freedom and Equality was a runaway African-American slave named Crispus Attucks in the Boston Massacre in 1770. Ironically for him and his race of men and women, TRUE freedom and equality wouldn't come until 1965 with Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 
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