Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
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Published
New York, NY : Philomel Books, [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
Young readers edition.
Status
Port Angeles - J Nonfiction
J 796.323 MARANIS
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J 796.323 MARANIS
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LC Subjects
Basketball players -- United States -- Biography.
Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Racism in sports -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) -- History.
Vanderbilt University -- Basketball -- History.
Wallace, Perry -- (Law professor)
Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Racism in sports -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) -- History.
Vanderbilt University -- Basketball -- History.
Wallace, Perry -- (Law professor)
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Published
New York, NY : Philomel Books, [2017].
Edition
Young readers edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
MG
Level 7.9, 8 Points
Level 7.9, 8 Points
Notes
General Note
Includes bibliographic references and index.
General Note
"Adapted for young people from Strong Inside: Percy Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2014." -- verso.
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. 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.