Attucks!: How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World

by Phillip Hoose

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374306125
• ISBN13: 9780374306120
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 7 to Postsecondary