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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