Answer: 1770, he was the first multi-racial man killed in the American revolution.
Explanation: He was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
Of Native American and Black descent, he was a rope-maker in Boston (and at times a whaler).
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote about the inspired life of Crispus Attucks, saying, “He is one of the most important figures in African-American history, not for what he did for his own race but for what he did for all oppressed people everywhere."
Crispus Attucks, a multiracial man who had escaped slavery, is known as the first American colonist killed in the American Revolution. ... The event, which became known as the Boston Massacre, helped fuel the outrage against British rule—and spurred on the American Revolution
