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Comment: Possibly notable, more significant coverage is needed. Kovcszaln6 (talk) 14:56, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
Make this a disambig oage of the groups???
Crispus Attucks Association | |
| Named after | Crispus Attucks (c. 1723–1770) |
|---|---|
| Formation | April 1890 |
| Founded at | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
The Crispus Attucks Club, also known as the Crispus Attucks Association, is an African American community organization and social club founded in 1890 in Boston, and has chapters in various cities across the United States. The group was named for Crispus Attucks, who was the first person killed at the Boston Massacre.
A Crispus Attucks Association was established in Greenwoch, Connecticut.[1]
Crispus Attucks York organization was established in York, Pennsylvania.[2] Books is about this group.[3] https://www.cayhcc.org/ Building a history center[4]
History
[edit]In April 1890, the club was founded in Boston, Massachusetts,[5] by local lawyers Edward Everett Brown, Edwin Garrison Walker, and James H. Wolff.[6] The group adopted a constitution, and was presided over by Edward Everett Brown.[7][8] It was named for Crispus Attucks, who was the first person killed at the Boston Massacre that preceded the American Revolutionary War.[9]
The group held commemorations of Attucks on March 5. The annual dinner in 1894 was held at the Quincy House hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In the late 19th-century, the Crispus Attucks Club was one of the largest African American social clubs in the state of Massachusetts, and the Lebanon Daily News newspaper described it as a "leading colored organization of the state."[10][11] Chapters were established in Joliet, Illinois (founded ?),[11][12] Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (founded ?), New York City (founded 1931);[13] Greenwich, Connecticut (founded 1941);[9] and San Francisco (founded 1944, and later known as the Bayview Neighborhood Community Center).[14]
In 2017, 85 Years of Community Building was published. It includes descriptions of the leadership and community building efforts of members.[15]
Members
[edit]- Edward Everett Brown, president of the Boston chapter[8]
- George Bowles, founder of the New York City chapter,[13][15] he was a doctor and helped establish the Crispus Attucks Community Center in New York City in 1931 with Rev. Thomas Montouth[16]
- Dorothy Margarete Curtis (also known as Dorothy Curtis Nichols), member of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania chapter who was an elementary school teacher and a soloist[13][17]
- James R. Hamm, chairman of the executive committee in Boston[18]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ https://greenwichhistory.org/crispus-attucks-a-legacy-of-radical-black-dignity/
- ^ https://crispusattucks.org/who-we-are/our-history/
- ^ https://www.ydr.com/story/news/history/blogs/york-town-square/2017/02/15/york-pa-crispus-attucks-character-building-business/97801374/#
- ^ https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/2023/01/26/crispus-attucks-history-and-culture-center-coming-soon/69842293007/#
- ^ "Gleaned Here and There". The Sunday Leader. March 30, 1890. p. 13. Retrieved 2025-01-11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Roots of Activism Run Deep for The Brown Family". Granite State News Collaborative. 2023-03-27. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
- ^ "Edward Everett Brown 1899". The Colored American. 1899-11-25. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-01-11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Boston and Vicinity Volume 53, Number 13". Newspapers.BC.edu. Pilot (newspaper). 29 March 1890 – via Boston College Newspapers.
The Crispus Attucks Club of Boston met on the evening of March 19. Edward Everett Brown presided. A constitution was adopted and fifteen members were Initiated.
- ^ a b "Crispus Attucks: A Legacy of Radical Black Dignity". Greenwich Historical Society. 2022-03-03. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
- ^ "Anniversary of the Boston Massacre". Lebanon Daily News. March 6, 1894. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-01-11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b Kachun, Mitch (September 21, 2017). "Crispus Attucks Meets Jim Crow: The Segregation of American Memory, 1870s–1910s". First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory. Vol. 1. Oxford University Press. pp. 86–87. doi:10.1093/oso/9780199731619.003.0005. ISBN 978-0-19-973161-9 – via Silverchair.
- ^ "Crispus Attuck Club to Give Entertainment". Herald News. 1914-09-24. p. 9. Retrieved 2025-01-11 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "African-American Women's Organizations in Harrisburg". March 18, 2021.
- ^ "A Day's Work: Hunters Point Shipyard Workers, 1940–1945". FoundSF. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
- ^ a b McClure, James (February 15, 2017). "York's Crispus Attucks in the 'character building' business". York Daily Record. Retrieved 2025-01-11.
- ^ "Omega men: Historic Black fraternity leaves lasting impact on central Pennsylvania". Yahoo News. March 14, 2023.
- ^ "Dorothy M. Curtis". October 9, 2020.
- ^ Neal, Anthony (January 30, 2013). "James R. Hamm: News dealer, local leader". The Bay State Banner.
Further reading
[edit]- "New Bedford formation of Crispus Attucks club" November 15, 1887 Weekly New Era Norton, Kansas page 2
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