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Attucks' win helped race relations

By Patrick Dorsey
Special to ESPNRISE.com

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Here's what they knew: They won. Oh, they knew it meant something, too. The cheer in Butler Fieldhouse told them. So did the fire-truck ride through the streets of Indianapolis, all the way down to Monument Circle and then back up to Northwestern Park for a bonfire that brought pretty much the whole North Side and even some of the West Side out to celebrate. And the fact they could eat in a downtown restaurant -- that one really let the Crispus Attucks High School basketball team know its fea ...

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