Historic Voices: Boston Students Echo Boston Patriots
March 6, 2009
Robert J. Allison professor, history, Suffolk University

Boston Latin School commemorates the 239th anniversary of the Boston Massacre by dramatizing the words of orators such as John Hancock, Joseph Warren, and John Rock.

In the years that followed the Boston Massacre, citizens crowded the halls of Old South Meeting House on the anniversary of the infamous event to hear the moving words of Boston's greatest orators. These speeches were evocative, passionate, and intended to stir the people of Boston into rebellion. Their inspirational messages about freedom and democracy still ring true today. Robert Allison, history professor at Suffolk University and author of The Boston Massacre, narrates the event.

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