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2018., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: HI-INT 796.323 HOO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The true story of the all-black high school basketball team that broke the color barrier in segregated 1950s Indiana. By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school 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, 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. 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.
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2018., Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: GAMES & SPORTS NF HOO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Charts the rise of the legendary Crispus Attucks High School Tigers in the 1950s. By winning the Indiana state high school basketball boys' championship in 1955, ten teens from a school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in Indiana shattered the myth of their own 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 player Oscar 'The Big O' Robertson. The Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the first state champions from the city of Indianapolis and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament"--Publisher.
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c2016., Juvenile, Rosen Pub. Group Call No: 973.3 113 092 Click here to access this interactive ebook Summary Note: "While Crispus Attucks was the first American to die for the cause of liberty he was not the only African American patriot. This informational text looks at Attucks life, his murder at the Boston Massacre and the determination of colonists to be free of Britain's tyrannical rule. This book, however, also looks at other African American patriots who fought at Lexington and Concord and other battles and who bravely fought for the nation's freedom and their own"--Provided by the publisher.
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c2007., Weekly Reader Early Learning Library Call No: B ATT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great AmericansSummary Note: Describes the life of African American sailor and rope maker Crispus Attucks, who became one of the first to die for Independence at the Boston Massacre in 1770.
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By Beier, Anne2004., Rosen Central Primary Source Call No: B ATT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of famous people in American historySummary Note: Introduces the life of Crispus Attucks, a former slave who died in the Boston Massacre, a fight between the British and American colonists that occurred before the American Revolution.
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By Beier, Anne2004., Rosen Central Primary Source Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of famous people in American historySummary Note: Introduces the life of Crispus Attucks, a former slave who died in the Boston Massacre, a fight between the British and American colonists that occurred before the American Revolution.
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c2003., Juvenile, Holiday House Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Profiles twelve men and women who had a significant impact on the American Revolution. Ethan Allen, Crispus Attucks, Lydia Darragh, Nathan Hale, Mary "Molly Pitcher" Hays, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, Thomas Paine, Paul Revere, Haym Salomon, Deborah Sampson, George Washington.