Strong Inside
Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
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Word Count
120,000 words, Guess
Page Count
480 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28811105M
- ISBN-139780826520241
- OCLC Control Number874970560
- OCLC Control Numberstronginsideperr0000mara
- Library of Congress Control Number2014015257
Classifications
- LCCGV884.W29M37 2014
Description
Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites to learn side by side. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace enrolled in high school and his sensational jumping, dunking, and rebounding abilities quickly earned him the attention of college basketball recruiters from top schools across the nation. In his senior year his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee's first racially-integrated state tournament.
Description
"Strong Inside is the dramatic, untold story of Perry Wallace, a brilliant student and talented athlete who became the first African-American basketball player in the SEC at Vanderbilt University during the tumultuous late 1960s. The fast-paced, richly detailed biography places Wallace's struggles and ultimate success into the larger contexts of civil rights and race relations in the South"--Provided by publisher"--
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