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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Bibliographic Details
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.

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.