The theatre was named in honor of Crispus Attucks, an African American who was the first patriot to lose his life in the Revolutionary War.
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Over fifty Bostonians pressed around White, led by a mixed-race runaway slave named Crispus Attucks, throwing objects at the sentry and challenging him to fire his weapon.
The buildings were renamed after prominent blacks in America: Crispus Attucks, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington.