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

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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