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Mar 27, 2024 · While white crowds reeled over all-Black Crispus Attucks on the basketball court, many of the spectators were likely to treat the teenaged players as less than human after the last buzzer...
- Pete Croatto
Feb 24, 2014 · Instead, it would be named for Crispus Attucks, a black man killed by British troops in the "Boston Massacre" of March 5, 1770, and therefore long believed to have been the first American...
Crispus Attucks High School was the city’s response to pressure to segregate public secondary education. In the 1920s, most of the city’s elementary schools were already segregated, but the lack of a separate secondary school forced the public school system to enroll Blacks in existing high schools. Late in 1922, the school board ...
Crispus Attucks High School (also known as Crispus Attucks Medical Magnet High School) is a public high school of Indianapolis Public Schools in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. Its namesake, Crispus Attucks (c.1723 – March 5, 1770), was an African American patriot killed during the Boston Massacre.
In 1949, school segregation was outlawed in Indiana, but Crispus Attucks remained almost exclusively African American until busing began in the 1970s to achieve racially integrated schooling. In the 1980s, Crispus Attucks High School was converted into a junior high school and continues to function as such today.
Statewide desegregation was enacted into law by the Indiana General Assembly in 1949, five years before the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. However, Crispus Attucks continued to be a segregated African American high school.
