[SoCal Pubbie]

Attucks was the first casualty of the Revolution.

[The KG9 Kid]

That's right. The first American hero to give his life for Liberty was a black man.

[Old Student]

Crispus Attucks was the first KIA of the Revolution; there were several others wounded at the time he was killed, according to the histories I've read. They, too, were casualties.