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Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city
- Title
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city / Phillip Hoose.
- Author
- Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- 212 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Robertson, Oscar, 1938-
- Crispus Attucks Tigers (Basketball team) > History
- Crispus Attucks Tigers (Basketball team)
- African American basketball coaches > Biography
- African American basketball players > Biography
- Basketball players > United States > Biography
- Basketball teams > Indiana > Indianapolis > History
- Basketball players
- United States > Race relations > History > 20th century
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-1171
- ISBN
- 9780374306120
- 0374306125
- LCCN
- 2018002809
- OCLC
- 1050457376
- Author
- Hoose, Phillip M., 1947- author.
- Title
- Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city / Phillip Hoose.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, [2018]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-1171