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Strong inside : Perry Wallace and the collision of race and sports in the South Andrew Maraniss

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks GV 884 .W29 M37 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Maraniss, Andrew
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Wallace, Perry (Law professor).
Vanderbilt University--Basketball--History.
Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team)--History.
Basketball players--United States--Biography.
Racism in sports--Southern States--History--20 century.
Civil rights--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--Race relations.
Physical Description:
x, 467 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Place of Publication:
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
Summary:
"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.
Contents:
Forgiveness
Short 26th
Woomp show
They had the wrong guy
Harvard of the South
These boys never faltered
Somewhere like Xanadu
Reverse migration
Growing pains
Icicles in raincoats
Articulate messengers
A hit or miss thing
Inferno
Subversion's circuit rider
Trouble in paradise
Season of loss
Ghosts
Memorial magic
Deepest sense of dread
A long, hellish trauma
Destiny of dissent
Revolt
The cruel deception
Black fists
Nevermore
Bachelor of ugliness
Ticket out of town
Time and space
Embrace
Rising.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection
ISBN:
9780826520234
0826520235
9780826520241
0826520243
OCLC:
874970560

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