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Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line
- Title
- Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line / Andrew Maraniss.
- Author
- Maraniss, Andrew
- Publication
- New York, NY : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 19-3744 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 262 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subject
- Wallace, Perry (Law professor) > Juvenile literature
- Wallace, Perry (Law professor)
- Vanderbilt University > Basketball > History > Juvenile literature
- Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) > History > Juvenile literature
- Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team)
- Vanderbilt University
- 1900-1999
- Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Racism in sports > Southern States > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Basketball players > Tennessee > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Basketball players > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature
- Basketball
- Basketball players
- Civil rights
- Race relations
- Racism in sports
- Southern States > Race relations > Juvenile literature
- Southern States
- Tennessee
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Juvenile works.
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- "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" -- T.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index.
- Audience (note)
- Ages 10 up.
- Study Program (note)
- Accelerated Reader AR
- Call Number
- JFD 19-3744
- ISBN
- 9781524737276
- 1524737275
- OCLC
- 1003812562
- Author
- Maraniss, Andrew, author.
- Title
- Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line / Andrew Maraniss.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index.
- Audience
- Ages 10 up.
- Study Program
- MG Accelerated Reader AR 7.9 8.0 186511.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 19-3744