Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city / Phillip Hoose.
2018
GV885.43.C8 H66 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city / Phillip Hoose.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374306120 (hardcover)
0374306125 (hardcover)
0374306125 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, [2018]
Language
English
Description
212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
GV885.43.C8 H66 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.323092 B
Summary
"By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten black teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in Indiana 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."--Jacket flap.
Indianapolis, 1955. They were meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state, but shattered the myth of their inferiority. Anchored by Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history because of their on-court prowess. Hoose tells the true story of how an all-black high school basketball team became the first state champions from Indianapolis-- and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament. Against impossible odds, they made a difference when it mattered most. -- adapted from jacket
Indianapolis, 1955. They were meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state, but shattered the myth of their inferiority. Anchored by Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history because of their on-court prowess. Hoose tells the true story of how an all-black high school basketball team became the first state champions from Indianapolis-- and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament. Against impossible odds, they made a difference when it mattered most. -- adapted from jacket
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
A note from the author: Oscar's contention
Prologue: Flap's shot
North toward hope
Hoosier hysteria
Ray Crowe: "I would love to meet your family"
Gentlemen or warriors?
A form of jazz
Ten for the referees
"To be around my people"
"Attucks was ours"
Perfection
Legacy
Acknowledgments
The times that followed.
Prologue: Flap's shot
North toward hope
Hoosier hysteria
Ray Crowe: "I would love to meet your family"
Gentlemen or warriors?
A form of jazz
Ten for the referees
"To be around my people"
"Attucks was ours"
Perfection
Legacy
Acknowledgments
The times that followed.