Attucks! is true story of the all-black high school basketball team
that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana,
masterfully told by National Book Award winner Phil Hoose. By
winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten
teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of
racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of
their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an
unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised
in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future
college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in
history as the first state champions from Indianapolis and the
first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open
championship tournament--an integration they had forced with their
on-court prowess. From native Hoosier and award-winning author
Phillip Hoose comes this true story of a team up against impossible
odds, making a difference when it mattered most. An ALA Notable
Book of 2019 NYPL Best Book for Teens of 2018 A 2018 Booklist Youth
Editors' Choice A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's
Literature Best Book of 2018 A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Nonfiction
Book of 2018 An ALSC Notable Children's Book of 2019 A YALSA
Excellence in Nonfiction Award Nominee This title has Common Core
connections.
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