Strong inside: perry wallace and the collision of race and sports in the south - Andrew Maraniss

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• New York Times Best Seller 2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition 2015 Lillian Smith Book Award 2015 AAUP Books Committee Outstanding Title Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the SEC, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre.
• Perry Wallace's unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.
• Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v.
• Board of Education upended separate but equal.
• As a 12-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville's lunch counters.
• A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, Wallace entered high school, and later saw the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts.
• On March 16, 1966, his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee's first integrated state tournament--the same day Adolph Rupp's all-white Kentucky Wildcats lost to the all-black Texas Western Miners in an iconic NCAA title game.
• The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt recruited him, Wallace courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the SEC.
• His experiences on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be nothing like he ever imagined.
• On campus, he encountered the leading civil rights figures of the day, including Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Robert Kennedy--and he led Vanderbilt's small group of black students to a meeting with the university chancellor to push for better treatment.