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Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line Cover Image Book

Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line

Maraniss, Andrew (author.).

Summary: 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.

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  • ISBN: 9780399548345
  • ISBN: 0399548343
  • Physical Description: print
    262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: Young readers edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Philomel Books, [2017].

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
A Dangerous Place -- Short 26th -- Freedom Song -- Pearl of the Community -- The Woomp Show -- Not Just Another Game -- They Had the Wrong Guy -- The Name of the Game -- Champions! -- The Promise -- The Surprise -- Dangerous Territory -- History Made Them Wrong -- Hit or Miss -- Crazy People -- Sudden Impact -- What About Justice? -- The Invisible Man -- Slammed Shut -- As Good as It Gets -- The Sudden Fall -- Nightmares -- Hate, Defeated -- A River of Tears -- Death of a Dream -- Truth to Power -- The Cruel Deception -- All Alone -- Nevermore -- Bachelor of Ugliness -- He Saved the Best for Last -- Ticket Out of Town.
Target Audience Note:
1170L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.9 8 186511.

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Subject:
Wallace, Perry (Law professor)
Vanderbilt University Basketball History
Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) History
Basketball players United States Biography
Racism in sports Southern States History 20th century
Civil rights Southern States History 20th century
Southern States Race relations
Genre:
Young adult literature.
Biographies.
Young adult literature.

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  • 10 of 10 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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