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Published on: 2014-12-01
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New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" TitleBased on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the SEC, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallace's unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended "separate but equal." As a 12-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville's lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace entered high school, and later saw the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. On March 16, 1966, his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee's first integrated state tournament--the same day Adolph Rupp's all-white Kentucky Wildcats lost to the all-black Texas Western Miners in an iconic NCAA title game.The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt recruited him, Wallace courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the SEC. His experiences on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be nothing like he ever imagined.On campus, he encountered the leading civil rights figures of the day, including Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Robert Kennedy--and he led Vanderbilt's small group of black students to a meeting with the university chancellor to push for better treatment.On the basketball court, he experienced an Ole Miss boycott and the rabid hate of the Mississippi State fans in Starkville. Following his freshman year, the NCAA instituted "the Lew Alcindor rule," which deprived Wallace of his signature move, the slam dunk.Despite this attempt to limit the influence of a rising tide of black stars, the final basket of Wallace's college career was a cathartic and defiant dunk, and the story Wallace told to the Vanderbilt Human Relations Committee and later The Tennessean was not the simple story of a triumphant trailblazer that many people wanted to hear. Yes, he had gone from hearing racial epithets when he appeared in his dormitory to being voted as the university's most popular student, but, at the risk of being labeled "ungrateful," he spoke truth to power in describing the daily slights and abuses he had overcome and what Martin Luther King had called "the agonizing loneliness of a pioneer." Andrew Maraniss - Official Site Strong Inside Perry Wallace Book. ... AndrewMaraniss.com. Author of Strong Inside - Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South. About; Young Readers; Strong Inside : NPR Strong Inside Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South. ... Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South by Andrew Maraniss. Strong inside : Perry Wallace and the collision of race ... Strong inside : Perry Wallace and the collision of race and ... 894510850 Strong inside : Perry Wallace and the collision of race and sports in the South ... Strong Inside Perry Wallace And The Collision Of Race And ... strong inside perry wallace and the collision of race ... collision of race and sports in the south race sports ... strong inside perry wallace and the collision of ... Strong Inside Item Detail University Press ... Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in ... Strong Inside is an invaluable resource for studying the state of ... Vanderbilt University Press ... About Strong Inside: Perry Wallace Biography by Andrew ... Strong Inside is the biography of Perry ... Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in ... but raw account of basketball and racism in the South ... Perry Wallace Who Broke Basketball Barriers Didn't ... - NPR Strong Inside. Perry Wallace and the Collision of ... Collision of Race and Sports in the South ... Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of ... Review of Andrew Maraniss's "Strong Inside: Perry Wallace ... Review of Andrew Maraniss's "Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of ... collision of race and sports in the South ... Strong Inside despite its ... Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and ... Start by marking Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South ... was a strong emphasis on the sports part ... Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race ... Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South by ... is an associate editor at The Washington Post) notes that Wallace and ...
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