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Hoose, Phillip

Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

212 pp. | Farrar | October, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-30612-0 $19.99
(2) YA Hoose begins in the early 1920s, when Indianapolis's KKK-influenced school board created a separate, African American–only high school. By the 1950s, Crispus Attucks High had a seemingly unstoppable all-black basketball team (including future NBA great Oscar Robertson), which won two straight state titles and brought some progress to a racially divided city. Dramatic photographs, numerous sidebars, newspaper headlines, and thorough back matter enrich a thought-provoking volume. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2018

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