Strong Inside
Subtitle: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780826520241
Subjects: Basketball, biography; Civil rights, united states; Racism in sports; Southern states, race relations
Description: "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"--