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

Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City by Phillip M. Hoose tells the story of the basketball team at Crispus Attucks High School in Indiana. While the school was originally intended to segregate African American students from their Western counterparts, ten promising athletes on the basketball team went on, despite all odds, to compete in the state tournament of Indiana. They shattered previous records and rose to fame instantly; their fame was so great that coaches from other schools began taking in African American basketball players.

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