Attucks!, Phillip Hoose
Attucks!, Phillip Hoose
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Attucks!
How Crispus Attucks Basketball Broke Racial Barriers and Jolted the World

Author: Phillip Hoose

Narrator: Brad Sanders

Unabridged: 4 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/23/2018

Synopsis

"Narrator Brad Sanders's baritone voice bestows deserved gravitas on this remarkable story...Hoops and history fans won't be the only ones appreciating this inspirational listen." — AudioFile Magazine

Attucks! is the 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.

This title has Common Core connections.

About Phillip Hoose

Phillip Hoose is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters. His book Claudette Colvin won a National Book Award and was dubbed a Publisher's Weekly Best Book of 2009. He is also the author of Hey, Little Ant, co-authored by his daughter, Hannah; It’s Our World, Too!; The Race to Save the Lord God Bird; The Boys Who Challenged Hitler; and We Were There, Too!, a National Book Award finalist. He has received a Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and multiple Robert F. Sibert Honor Awards, among numerous honors. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and grew up in the towns of South Bend, Angola, and Speedway, Indiana. He was educated at Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry. He lives in Portland, Maine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin on May 15, 2020

This seriously might make my Christmas card list. This book was SO GOOD! I learned so much about Oscar Robertson, Crispus Attucks, race relations in Indianapolis, and Ray Crowe. This was well written and would appeal to both younger and adult readers. I loved the format, I loved the photos and the n......more

Goodreads review by Charlie on October 07, 2018

Received this book from Goodreads.com. Thanks This story is about a breakthrough in how the blacks awakened a city on the basketball scene. This period ranges in the 40s-60s when the blacks had little opportunity to be able to do what they wanted to do with the rest of the white basketball players- to......more

Goodreads review by Corey on March 13, 2019

I read this book for my Literature and Resources for Young Adults Class As someone who doesn't like sports very much, and also doesn't really get down on Basketball as far as sports go, I was nervous to jump into this book. It just seemed like it was going to bog me down. That was not the case at all......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on January 14, 2024

A somber story of how racist Indiana was — yet an inspiring story showing how a HS basketball team finally pushed Indiana past its prejudices. Not a huge non-fiction fan…. But this one kept my attention almost the whole time. A story that needed to be told + needs to be read!......more

Goodreads review by Dale on June 20, 2024

Published in 2018 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) NOTE: Also published under the title UNBEATABLE! Attucks! appears to be just a story about a 1950's era basketball team, but it is much more than that. it is the story of Jim Crow style racism in a northern state. It is the story of an underdog s......more

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"Narrator Brad Sanders's baritone voice bestows deserved gravitas on this remarkable true story." -AudioFile

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