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Apr 18, 2024 · INDIANAPOLIS — Three women are facing charges of battery and disorderly conduct after court documents say they came into an Indianapolis high school and attacked a student.
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Mar 27, 2024 · Led by its brilliant star, future NBA Hall of Fame inductee Oscar Robertson, Crispus Attucks lost only one game from 1954 to 1956 and won back-to-back state championships in hoops-crazed...
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Aug 18, 1971 · When such school, Crispus Attucks, was opened in September, 1927, all Negro high school students were forthwith compelled to attend it, regardless of their place of residence in the city.
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The case, United States v. Board of School Commissioners, was tried in Indianapolis in July of 1971. The verdict, given on August 18, 1971, found “a purposeful pattern of racial discrimination based on the aggregate of many decisions of the Board and its agents.”
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Aug 17, 2017 · In 1968, the federal government filed a complaint and took the IPS school board to court for continuing de jure (by law) segregation, while the school board argued that they were innocent and that IPS schools only suffered from de facto (by fact, or chance) segregation.