Draft:Crispus Attucks Club
The Crispus Attucks Club was an organization of African Americans. The group adopted a constitution at a meeting in Boston presided over by Edward Everett Brown in 1890. The group was named for Crispus Attucks who was the first person killed at the Boston Massacre that preceded the Revolutionary War. Chapters were established in Harrisburg, New York City,[1] and Joliet, Illinois.[2]
The group held commemorations of Attucks on March 5. The annual dinner in 1894 was held at the Quincy House hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A newspaper described it as a "leading colored organization of the state."[3]
Members
[edit]- Edward Everett Brown[4]
- George Bowles (New York ?, New York City chapter founder in 1931[1]
- Dorothy Margarete Curtis, member of Harrisburg chapter[1][5]
- Alfreda Davis of the Davis Sisters, served as president? Was this a chapter or a similarly named club of women musicians??? [6]
- James R. Hamm[7]
Further reading
[edit]- "New Bedford formation of Crispus Attucks club" November 15, 1887 Weekly New Era
Norton, Kansas page 2
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "African-American Women's Organizations in Harrisburg". March 18, 2021.
- ^ Kachun, Mitch (September 21, 2017). Kachun, Mitch (ed.). First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory. Oxford University Press. p. 0 – via Silverchair.
- ^ Kachun, Mitch (June 20, 2017). "First Martyr of Liberty: Crispus Attucks in American Memory". Oxford University Press – via Google Books.
- ^ "Pilot, Volume 53, Number 13 — 29 March 1890 — Boston College Newspapers". newspapers.bc.edu.
- ^ "Dorothy M. Curtis". October 9, 2020.
- ^ Greer, Ronald L. (September 17, 2015). "Only a Look: A Historical Look at the Career of Mrs. Roberta Martin and the Roberta Martin Gospel Singers of Chicago, Illinois". WestBow Press – via Google Books.
- ^ "James R. Hamm: News dealer, local leader – The Bay State Banner". www.baystatebanner.com.