Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line /
Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in American 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" spee...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
[2018]
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| Summary: | Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in American 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Adapted for young people from Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2014" -- Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 262 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781524737276 1524737275 |