Why was one of the descendants of Crispus Attucks was not even considered for membership in the dar?

Answer 1

No one who applies for membership in the DAR based on an ancestor who was a victim of the Boston Massacre is eligible. There were four other people killed in the massacre - can anyone name them?

Membership is available to those whose ancestors participated in the Boston Tea Party. Both were prewar events, but the Tea Party was three years after the Massacre and only two before the War began. The Tea Party was a planned act of protest and resistance to the British taxes, and provoked a British response that caused a further slide to war. The Boston massacre probably did have its roots in the dissatisfaction of Boston's citizens with the presence of British troops in town. But the massacre arose spontaneously, an unplanned mob appearing after a boy harassed a British soldier for being late paying a barber's bill, and was struck for his trouble. The mob pelted the soldiers with stones and threatened them with pieces of lumber. The soldiers who fired on them were tried in the local court and acquitted. It was only after the fact that the British reaction to the mob came to be seen as a milestone on the path to war. The DAR does admit black women, though there was a controversy in the 80s over allegations of an applicant denied membership due to race. She got free legal representation and eventually the DAR did giver her a membership. She was not, however, the first black member.