Program Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis is officially launching National Book Award-winning author Phil Hoose’s new book, Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City. Join us for a discussion with Phil Hoose and other panelists familiar with the Crispus Attucks basketball story. By winning the Indiana high school basketball championship in 1955, 10 teenaged athletes from all-black Indianapolis Crispus Attucks High School shattered the myth of racial inferiority.

Panelists Include:

Dr. Stanley Warren— Author, High Five: African-American Institutions That Have Strengthened the Indianapolis Community; retired Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Education, DePauw University

Phil Hoose — Author, Attucks!: Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City

Josiah Herndon— 2017 Crispus Attucks alumnus and former equipment manager for the Crispus Attucks basketball team

Dr. Patricia Payne — Director, Crispus Attucks Museum

Jerry Harkness — Retired Indiana Pacers point guard

Bill Benner — Director, Pacers Foundation INC

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