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Crispus Attucks High School (also known as Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School) is a public high school of Indianapolis Public Schools in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Its namesake, Crispus Attucks (c.1723 – March 5, 1770), was an African American patriot killed during the Boston Massacre.
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The Crispus Attucks Museum, named for the local Indianapolis Public School of the same name, houses memorabilia from the first all African-American high school in Indiana. Crispus Attucks, a Black man, was the first hero to die in the American Revolution, and the high school named in his honor was established in Indy in 1927 as a segregated school.
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Crispus Attucks Museum is a museum inside Crispus Attucks High School located in Indianapolis, Indiana. The museum is operated by the Indianapolis Public School (IPS) system and features exhibitions on local, state, national, and international African American history.
Crispus Attucks has a long and rich history in Indiana and in the IPS district. In 1927, Attucks opened its doors as a segregated high school — to educate Indianapolis’ growing black population — after city officials decided to institute school desegregation in the 1920s.
Crispus Attucks High School was the city’s response to pressure to segregate public secondary education. In the 1920s, most of the city’s elementary schools were already segregated, but the lack of a separate secondary school forced the public school system to enroll Blacks in existing high schools. Late in 1922, the school board ...
Crispus Attucks was Indianapolis' first segregated high school built for African-Americans in 1927. It was named after Crispus Attucks, a black man who was the first American to die in the Boston Massacre in 1770, a precursor to the American Revolutionary War.
