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Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Andrew Maraniss
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Description for Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Hardcover. Biography of the first African American basketball player in the SEC, set in the civil rights conflicts of the tumultuous Sixties Num Pages: 472 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BGS; JFSL3; JPVH1; WSJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1061.
This fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, 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 twelve-year- old, he snuck 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 ... Read more
This fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, 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 twelve-year- old, he snuck 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826520234
SKU
V9780826520234
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About Andrew Maraniss
Formerly the associate director of media relations at the Vanderbilt athletic department and the first-ever media relations manager for the Tampa Bay Rays, Andrew Maraniss is now a partner at McNeely Pigott & Fox Public Relations. Andrew, the son of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss, attended Vanderbilt on the Fred Russell-Grantland Rice sportswriting scholarship. As a sophomore, he first interviewed ... Read more
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