Attucks! : Oscar Robertson and the basketball team that awakened a city / Phillip Hoose
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: 212 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780374306120
- 0374306125
- Robertson, Oscar, 1938-
- Crispus Attucks Tigers (Basketball team) -- History
- 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
- 796.323092 B 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Adult Book | Phillipsburg Free Public Library | YA Non-Fiction | YA Non-Fiction | YA 796.323092 HOO | Available | 36748002428094 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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
This title has Common Core connections.
Includes bibliographical references and index
"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
1110 Lexile
Accelerated Reader 7.5
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- A Note from the Author: Oscar's Contention (p. 1)
- Prologue: Flap's Shot (p. 7)
- 1 North Toward Hope (p. 11)
- 2 Hoosier Hysteria (p. 31)
- 3 Ray Crowe: "I Would Love to Meet Your Family" (p. 51)
- 4 Gentlemen or Warriors? (p. 63)
- 5 A Form of Jazz (p. 83)
- 6 Ten for the Referees (p. 97)
- 7 "To Be Around My People" (p. 107)
- 8 "Attucks Was Ours" (p. 125)
- 9 Perfection (p. 151)
- 10 Legacy (p. 169)
- Acknowledgments (p. 181)
- The Times That Followed (p. 183)
- Sources (p. 187)
- Notes (p. 193)
- Index (p. 207)