What race was Crispus Attucks?

Answer 1

Crispus Attucks was a bi-racial African Native American person, sometimes called a 'Black Indian'. Contrary to popular belief, Crispus Attucks was not simply black as people in his time and place defined it. Attucks was the product of the union of a African man who was an escaped slave and of a woman of the Natick band of the Massachusett, Wampanoag Indians.

Now by the 'one drop rule', African-Americans claim him as just black.

By the rules of matrilineal descent that the Indians of that region use Attucks would be considered an Indian because he was the son of one of their women.

Attucks may also have been some part white but I can find no document to support that.

The bottom line is that both African Americans and Native Americans can claim him 100%

(Personal experience as a person of tri-racial mixture and having all three races intermittently claim and disown me, seemingly based solely upon the weather at the time.)