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Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city /

"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...

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Main Author:	Hoose, Phillip M., 1947- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Crispus Attucks Tigers (Basketball team) > History. Robertson, Oscar, > 1938- 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. United States > Race relations > History > 20th century. SPORTS & RECREATION / General. Basketball players. United States. Biography. History. Biographies. Young adult nonfiction.

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