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Attucks!

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374306125
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Attucks! written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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. An ALA Notable Book of 2019 NYPL Best Book for Teens of 2018 A 2018 Booklist Youth Editors' Choice A Center for the Study of Multicultural Children's Literature Best Book of 2018 A Kirkus Reviews Best YA Nonfiction Book of 2018 An ALSC Notable Children's Book of 2019 A YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award Nominee This title has Common Core connections.

First Martyr of Liberty

Author : Mitch Kachun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199910863
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book First Martyr of Liberty written by Mitch Kachun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Martyr of Liberty explores how Crispus Attucks's death in the 1770 Boston Massacre led to his achieving mythic significance in African Americans' struggle to incorporate their experiences and heroes into the mainstream of the American historical narrative. While the other victims of the Massacre have been largely ignored, Attucks is widely celebrated as the first to die in the cause of freedom during the era of the American Revolution. He became a symbolic embodiment of black patriotism and citizenship. This book traces Attucks's career through both history and myth to understand how his public memory has been constructed through commemorations and monuments; institutions and organizations bearing his name; juvenile biographies; works of poetry, drama, and visual arts; popular and academic histories; and school textbooks. There will likely never be a definitive biography of Crispus Attucks since so little evidence exists about the man's actual life. While what can and cannot be known about Attucks is addressed here, the focus is on how he has been remembered--variously as either a hero or a villain--and why at times he has been forgotten by different groups and individuals from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Crispus Attucks

Author : Dharathula H. Millender
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0020418108
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Crispus Attucks written by Dharathula H. Millender and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1986-10-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of the Black American patriot who was killed at the Boston Massacre in 1770.

"But They Can't Beat Us!"

Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : Sports Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781571672575
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book "But They Can't Beat Us!" written by Randy Roberts and published by Sports Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1986 film Hoosiers, based on the true story of tiny Milan High School's 1954 state basketball championship, trafficked in familiar indiana images -- a backboard and a hoop erected on a pole between a house and a field and a solitary boy arching a basketball against a backdrop of corn, soybeans, and the monotony of the rural Midwest. But in the 1950s another Hoosiers myth was taking shape, one in which urban, poor, black kids came together at Indianapolis's Crispus Attucks High School and overcame greater obstacles and achieved even more than Milan. Led by a talented group of players that included Oscar Robertson and coached by the young and talented Ray Crowe, the Crispus Attucks Tigers won the state championship the next two years in a row, 1955 and 1956. In the first of those years it became the first all-black school to win a championship, and in the second it became the first undefeated state champion. Attucks also was the first Indianapolis team to win the state tournament, a result that brought about mixed emotions among many in the state capital. According to award-winning sports historian Randy Roberts, Attucks "helped define and enshrine the Hoosiers myth by being its negation". An inspiring story that brings together joy, race, and achievement during a critical time in America, the chronicle of Crispus Attucks justifies the Indiana belief that basketball is just about the most important thing there is.

Crispus Attucks High School

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Crispus Attucks High School written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folder contains materials relating to Crispus Attucks High School.

Why We Can't Wait

Author : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807001139
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Why We Can't Wait written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”

The African American Soldier:

Author : Michael L. Lanning
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806536608
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The African American Soldier: written by Michael L. Lanning and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than five thousand blacks joined the rebel Americans in the war as soldiers, sailors, and marines; many more supported the rebellion as laborers. Their service went largely unrecognized and unrecorded. Few letters, journals, or other narratives by blacks about the Revolution exist because whites had denied most African Americans an education. White historians of the period, and for years after the war, ignored the contributions and impact of thousands of blacks participants for several reasons. First of all, prejudices were so deeply ingrained that it did not even occur to most whites of the time that blacks had played a significant role either as individuals who fought or labored or as a segment of the population that affected decisions. Prejudices also prevented some who did witness the contributions of African Americans from honestly reporting that blacks could perform equally with whites on the battlefield if given the opportunity. Others did not mention blacks because of the difficulty of explaining why the United States kept half a million men, women, and children enslaved while fighting for independence and liberty." From Defenders of Liberty, by Lt. Col. Michael Lee Lanning (Ret.)

Crispus Attucks

Author : Anne Beier
Publisher : Rosen Young Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780823941063
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Crispus Attucks written by Anne Beier and published by Rosen Young Adult. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Black Heroes of the American Revolution

Author : Burke Davis
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152085612
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (856 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Heroes of the American Revolution by : Burke Davis

Download or read book Black Heroes of the American Revolution written by Burke Davis and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The black soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence are profiled in this fascinating history which features prints and portraits from the period.

The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution

Author : William Cooper Nell
Publisher : Andesite Press
ISBN 13 : 9781298490308
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution written by William Cooper Nell and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A Memorial of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, and Patrick Carr

Author : Boston (Mass.). City Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book A Memorial of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Samuel Gray, and Patrick Carr written by Boston (Mass.). City Council and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Claudette Colvin

Author : Phillip Hoose
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312661053
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Claudette Colvin written by Phillip Hoose and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, 'This is not right.'" - Claudette Colvin On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle, the landmark case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept away the legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history. Claudette Colvin is the National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature, a Newbery Honor Book, A YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Finalist, and a Robert F. Sibert Honor Book.

The Book Itch

Author : Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN 13 : 1467790451
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book The Book Itch written by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, ALA Notable Children's Book, CCBC Best Children's Book of the Year, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Kirkus Best Children's Books, NCTE Notable In the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch—a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far as Lewis Michaux Jr. could tell, his father's bookstore was one of a kind. People from all over came to visit the store, even famous people—Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. In his father's bookstore people bought and read books, and they also learned from each other. People swapped and traded ideas and talked about how things could change. They came together here all because of his father's book itch. Read the story of how Lewis Michaux Sr. and his bookstore fostered new ideas and helped people stand up for what they believed in.

Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre

Author : Lynne Weiss
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477714634
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre written by Lynne Weiss and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will discover that, even as a free man, Attucks fought for the equality of others. Uses the graphic format to show readers how this man lived out his heroic life and how he came to be a key figure in our struggle for independence.

Winners

Author : John Gipson
Publisher : Gipp Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781943414314
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Winners written by John Gipson and published by Gipp Publications. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, the Crispus Attucks High School basketball team won the Indiana state championship. They were the first all-Black team in the United States to win a championship in an integrated sport. The win came at a time when racial divisions in the team's hometown of Indianapolis left Black citizens with little to celebrate. The historic accomplishment gave hope to the community and paved the way for positive change in the city. This memoir offers a fascinating glimpse at Crispus Attucks's success from the players' perspective. John Gipson and Stan Patton recount what life looked like for young Black men in the Midwest in the 1950s and 1960s and how racism manifested itself on and off the court. They also pay tribute to Coach Ray Crowe, whose dedication to his players created a basketball dynasty. Gipson's and Patton's story follows their teammates beyond graduation and into the successful lives they created for themselves. It also provides an inside view of competitive basketball during the era and the way former Attucks players, like the great Oscar Robertson, changed the sport forever. The Crispus Attucks team-and the men who were a part of it-will inspire basketball fans and anyone who believes in the power of sport.

Encyclopedia of American Folklore

Author : Linda S. Watts
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438129793
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Folklore written by Linda S. Watts and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedia of American Folklore helps readers explore the topics, terms, themes, figures, and issues related to the folklore of the United States.

African American Lives

Author : Henry Louis Gates
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 019516024X
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book African American Lives written by Henry Louis Gates and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the long-awaited successor to the "Dictionary of American Negro Biography," the authors illuminate history through the immediacy of individual experience, with authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans.