Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
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Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
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- Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
- Title remainder
- the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
- Statement of responsibility
- Andrew Maraniss
- Subject
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- 1900-1999
- Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) -- History
- Biography
- Biographies
- Vanderbilt University -- Basketball | History
- History
- Southern States
- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team)
- Basketball
- Wallace, Perry, (Law professor)
- Biographies
- Basketball players -- United States -- Biography
- Racism in sports -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
- Vanderbilt University
- Civil rights
- United States
- Biographies
- Basketball players
- Wallace, Perry, (Law professor)
- Racism in sports
- Race relations
- Southern States -- Race relations
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt University recruited Wallace to play basketball, he courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the Southeastern Conference. The hateful experiences he would endure on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be the stuff of nightmares. Yet Wallace persisted, endured, and met this unthinkable challenge head on. This insightful biography digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a complicated, profound, and inspiring story of an athlete turned civil rights trailblazer
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- Dewey number
- 796.323/092
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- GV884.W29
- LC item number
- M375 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Target audience
- adolescent
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