Editing Crispus Attucks (section)

== Legacy and honors ==
[[File:Boston Massacre victims headstone (36128).jpg|thumb|right|Crispus Attucks' grave in the [[Granary Burying Ground]]]]
* 1858, Boston-area abolitionists, including [[William Cooper Nell]], established "Crispus Attucks Day" to commemorate him.
* 1886, the places where Crispus Attucks and Samuel Gray fell were marked by circles on the pavement. Within each circle, a hub with spokes leads out to form a wheel.
* 1888, [[Boston Massacre Monument|a monument honoring Attucks and the other victims of the Boston Massacre]] was erected on [[Boston Common (park)|Boston Common]]. It is over 25 feet high and about 10 feet wide. The "bas-relief" (raised portion on the face of the main part of the monument) portrays the Boston Massacre, with Attucks lying in the foreground. Under the scene is the date, March 5, 1770. Above the bas-relief stands a female figure, ''Free America'', holding the broken chain of oppression in her right hand. Beneath her right foot, she crushes the royal crown of England. At the left of the figure is an eagle. Thirteen stars are cut into one of the faces of the monument. Beneath these stars in raised letters are the names of the five men who were killed that day: Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, and Patrick Carr. Some men died a day later.[[File:AttucksMiddleSchoolHouston.JPG|thumb|left|Crispus Attucks Middle School, [[Sunnyside, Houston|Sunnyside]], [[Houston]], [[Texas]]]] Although that year leaders of the [[Massachusetts Historical Society]] and the [[New England Historic Genealogical Society]] opposed the creation of the Crispus Attucks memorial, since the 20th century both organizations have acknowledged his role and promoted interest in black history and [[genealogy]].
* 1940, Attucks was honored with 1 of the 33 [[diorama]]s at the [[American Negro Exposition]] in Chicago.<ref>{{cite web|title=American Negro Exposition 1863–1940, July 4 to Sept. 2, 1940, Chicago, IL|url=http://livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/American%20Negro%20Exposition%201863-1940,%20July%204%20to%20Sept.%202,%201940,%20Chicago,%20IL.pdf|url-status=live|website=Living History of Illinois|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303060218/http://livinghistoryofillinois.com/pdf_files/American%20Negro%20Exposition%201863-1940,%20July%204%20to%20Sept.%202,%201940,%20Chicago,%20IL.pdf |archive-date=2017-03-03 }}</ref>
* 1998, the [[United States Treasury]] released the "[[Black Revolutionary War Patriots Silver Dollar]]" coin featuring Attucks' image on the obverse side. Funds from sales of the coin were intended for a proposed [[National Liberty Memorial|Black Revolutionary War Patriots Memorial]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>[http://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinNews/coinOfTheMonth/2000/02.cfm USmint.gov] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225032651/http://www.usmint.gov/kids/coinNews/coinOfTheMonth/2000/02.cfm |date=2015-12-25 }}, [[United States Mint]]: "Plinky's Coin of the Month February 2000"</ref>
* 2002, the Afrocentrist scholar [[Molefi Kete Asante]] listed Crispus Attucks as among the [[100 Greatest African Americans]].<ref>Molefi Kete Asante, ''100 Greatest African Americans: A Biographical Encyclopedia'' (Amherst, NY: [[Prometheus Books]], 2002).</ref>
* Institutions named for Attucks include the [[Crispus Attucks High School]] in [[Indianapolis, Indiana]]; [[Attucks High School]] in [[Hopkinsville, Kentucky]]; Attucks Middle School in [[Sunnyside, Houston|Sunnyside]], [[Houston]], [[Texas]]; the [[Crispus Attucks Elementary School]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri]]; the Attucks Middle School in [[Dania Beach, Florida]]; the [[Attucks Theatre]] in [[Norfolk, Virginia]]; the Crispus Attucks Association in York, Pennsylvania; Crispus Attucks Road in [[Spring Valley, New York]]; Crispus Attucks Elementary School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; Crispus Attucks Park in Carbondale, Illinois; Crispus Attucks Elementary School in East St. Louis, Illinois; [[Bloomingdale (Washington, D.C.)#Crispus Attucks Park|Crispus Attucks Park]] in Washington, DC; the Crispus Attucks Center in [[Dorchester, Massachusetts]]; Crispus Attucks Place, a residential street in [[Roxbury, Boston]], Massachusetts; and the Crispus Attucks Bridge in [[Framingham, Massachusetts]].
* The [[Wellcome Library]], in London, owns a notebook bound in what a note with it claims is Attucks' skin,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_notebook_allegedly_covered_in_human_skin_Wellcome_L0043480.jpg | title=A notebook allegedly covered in human skin }}</ref> although the library believes the book's leather actually comes from camel, horse, or goat.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schuessler |first1=Jennifer |last2=Jacobs |first2=Julia |date=19 April 2024 |title=Books Bound in Human Skin: An Ethical Quandary at the Library |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/arts/books-human-skin-harvard.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=19 April 2024}} </ref>