An American Hero
Attucks takes his place in the pantheon of national heroes in the popular consciousness.
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Imagining the Massacre
Artists draw on the memory of Attucks’s role in the Massacre to help navigate moments of national crisis.
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Facing Attucks
With no confirmed portrait of Attucks, artists draw on their imaginations to bring him to life.
Attucks in Art
Artists portrayed Attucks to remind the nation that people of African and Native descent are central to the American story.