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Attucks!
by Phillip Hoose
Ages: 12+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-30612-0
Keywords: Social/Emotional Learning, Civil Rights, Integration, Sports, Basketball, Racism, History
The record-shattering all-black Attucks High School basketball team triumphed over racism and propelled Indianapolis' integration in the 1950s. The sports and civil rights aspects are equally well-documented.