Attucks: The School That Opened A City

Built while the Ku Klux Klan ran Indiana, Crispus Attucks High School was designed to fail. Instead, for more than 40 years, the students who came of age within the brick walls of Attucks overcame a system designed to belittle them. They became surgeons and teachers, scientists and politicians, world-class musicians and athletes. And over time, these successes and the grace that accompanied them became a grassroots agent for integration, winning over the younger generation of Indy’s white population.
WFYI Public Media and Ted Green Films bring you the story of Crispus Attucks High School, illuminated by graduates including Oscar Robertson, Angela Brown, David Baker, Janet Langhart Cohen and many more.
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Those were classy people.
Then along came LBJ and the Democrats.