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Subtitle: the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
By: Andrew Maraniss
Edition: Young readers edition.
Publisher: Philomel Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780399548345
Subjects: Race relations; Basketball; Vanderbilt University; Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team); Racism in sports; Civil rights; Basketball players; Biography; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index.

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Table of contents: title: A Dangerous Place; title: Short 26th; title: Freedom Song; title: Pearl of the Community; title: The Woomp Show; title: Not Just Another Game; title: They Had the Wrong Guy; title: The Name of the Game; title: Champions!; title: The Promise; title: The Surprise; title: Dangerous Territory; title: History Made Them Wrong; title: Hit or Miss; title: Crazy People; title: Sudden Impact; title: What About Justice?; title: The Invisible Man; title: Slammed Shut; title: As Good as It Gets; title: The Sudden Fall; title: Nightmares; title: Hate, Defeated; title: A River of Tears; title: Death of a Dream; title: Truth to Power; title: The Cruel Deception; title: All Alone; title: Nevermore; title: Bachelor of Ugliness; title: He Saved the Best for Last; title: Ticket Out of Town.