Oscar Robertson is a basketball icon for his remarkable achievements on and off the court during the 1960s and '70s. As the 1971 NBA Champion, ... The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), ...

Ku Klux Klan, the infamous white supremacist, war-fight terrorist, and hate group, once threatened to shoot Oscar Robertson if he dared to play. The legendary point guard shared the story during ...

In 1959, Robertson received a hate letter from the Klu Klux Klan before a game. He detailed during an appearance on the All The Smoke podcast. "We were playing in the Dixie Classic," Robertson said.

Robertson recounted some of the racism he faced before that tournament — including a death threat from the Klu Klux Klan — in an appearance on the All The Smoke podcast. Oscar Robertson defied death ...

Oscar Robertson accepts a lifetime achievement award at the 2018 NBA Awards on Monday, ... North Carolina, “received a letter from the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan warning, ...

Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened a City Phillip Hoose. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $19.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-30612-0 ...

Those numbers are actually weighed down by his latter years with the Bucks, when Robertson was older. In his prime, from 1960-61 to 1970-71, Robertson averaged 28.3 points, 10.1 assists and 8.2 ...

Oscar Robertson couldn't afford to lose what he worked hard to build as a young individual and he wasn't, in any shape or form, going to stoop down to the kind of level ensued by the likes of the KKK.

Oscar Robertson is a name that comes up in basketball often. ... In 1959, he received a telegram from the Ku Klux Klan warning him that he would be shot if he played in the next game.

Crispus Attucks Museum tells the story of Oscar Robertson's legendary high school team and Indiana's Black history. Navigation Toggle. ... with much pressure coming from the state’s Ku Klux Klan.

In 1959, Robertson received a hate letter from the Klu Klux Klan before a game. He detailed during an appearance on the All The Smoke podcast. "We were playing in the Dixie Classic," Robertson said.