Attucks: The School That Opened a City

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.

IN THE NEWS

Sports Illustarted, February 23, 2016

The real Hoosiers tale: Crispus Attucks

Indianapolis Star, May 15, 2016

Attucks - The Shame and the Glory

Tom Joyner Morning Show, June 17, 2016

Little Known Black History Fact: Crispus Attucks High School

Indianapolis Recorder, July 2, 2016

'The school that opened a city'

Indianapolis Recorder, July 28, 2016

Separate but excellent: Histoy of Crispus Attucks High School

NUVO, August 10, 2016

How Oscar Robertson and Crispus Attucks champions were finally honored — decades later

Indianapolis Star, August 14, 2016

Documentary on Crispus Attucks High to premiere this week

Boomer TV, August 15, 2016

Attucks: The School That Opened A City

This documentary is made possible by The Efroymson Family Fund;
Lilly Endowment; CNO Financial Group; The Indianapolis Foundation, an affiliate of the Central Indiana Community Foundation; the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation; Impact 100 Greater Indianapolis; the family of Samuel and Alexis Odle; Thomas Sharpe; Donald Moffitt; the Indianapolis Urban League;
and many other generous companies and individuals.