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
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