Claudette Colvin, profiled in the award-winning biography, has been named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Women of the Year! Read about her and other “Bus Riders” HERE. For 72 years, TIME named a Man of the Year. With a few exceptions, it was almost always a man, usually a President or a Prime Minister or… Read more »
E.J. Bryan of Indianapolis Monthly recently interviewed author Phillip Hoose about his book Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City. Bryan asked Hoose what he hoped readers took away from the book. “How much kids, young people, and teens contributed to success in the Civil Rights movement. Oscar Robertson was 16… Read more »
In 2017, the city of Montgomery declared March 2, Claudette Colvin Day. In an excellent article by Melissa Brown for the Montgomery Advertiser, the city looks back on Claudette’s heroic act. “I didn’t get up and stand up. I just sat there. When people ask me why I didn’t get up and move, I tell… Read more »
Author Karen Leggett explores, “Why children have such powerful moral authority,” in an article for the Washington Post. “There is also the dogged persistence of kids, from school age to college age. That persistence can be endearing in children, but it’s rarely even feasible for adults. Even politically committed adults typically have to return to… Read more »
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team that Awakened a City has been chosen by the state of Indiana to represent the state’s literature at the 2019 National Book Festival in DC. Books selected by each state become a part of the Library of Congress Young Readers Center collection. Look for Attucks! in the Great… Read more »
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City is proud to have been honored with a Blue Ribbon from the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. Discover other great titles on the full list of honorees!
Want to know what’s gone on around here for the last few millennia? You can’t beat Tilbury’s History in Fifty Series! A History of Ambition in 50 Hoaxes A History of Civilization in 50 Disasters A History of Medicine in 50 Discoveries A History of Travel in 50 Vehicles “This dazzling History in Fifty Series… Read more »
An Excerpt for the Portland Press Herald article by Glenn Jordan, 12/5/18: An intriguing collaboration between the Portland Public Library and Portland High School brought together a local author with roughly 200 ninth-graders Wednesday morning to talk about basketball, race relations and perseverance… . Phil Hoose, who once provided commentary on public access television broadcasts… Read more »
Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City receives its fourth starred review. “Hoose balances this exposé of basketball’s racist history with thrilling game accounts, character insight, and great sympathy. Oscar Robertson may be the best-known player from this era, but Crispus Attucks’s basketball coach, Ray Crowe, who molded the teams, becomes… Read more »
The Indy Star recently review Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City saying, “Most Hoosiers already know this story — through books, TV specials, or newspaper stories. But this latest telling — about a black high school basketball team triumphs over racial injustice in 1950s Indianapolis — actually manages to be revelatory…” —Indy Star Read… Read more »