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Strong inside : Perry Wallace and the collision of race and sports in the South / Andrew Maraniss.

Title
Strong inside : Perry Wallace and the collision of race and sports in the South / Andrew Maraniss.
Author
Maraniss, Andrew
Publication
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

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Description
x, 467 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
Summary
"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"--
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports
  • Basketball players > United States > Biography
  • Civil rights > History > Southern States > 20th century
  • Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century
  • HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights
  • Racism in sports > Southern States > History > 20 century
  • Racism in sports > Southern States > History > 20th century
  • Southern States > Race relations
  • Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) > History
  • Vanderbilt University > History
  • Wallace, Perry (Law professor)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Forgiveness -- Short 26th -- Woomp show -- They had the wrong guy -- Harvard of the South -- These boys never faltered -- Somewhere like Xanadu -- Reverse migration -- Growing pains -- Icicles in raincoats -- Articulate messengers -- A hit or miss thing -- Inferno -- Subversion's circuit rider -- Trouble in paradise -- Season of loss -- Ghosts -- Memorial magic -- Deepest sense of dread -- A long, hellish trauma -- Destiny of dissent -- Revolt -- The cruel deception -- Black fists -- Nevermore -- Bachelor of ugliness -- Ticket out of town -- Time and space -- Embrace -- Rising.
ISBN
  • 9780826520234 (hardback)
  • 0826520235 (hardback)
  • 9780826520241 (paperback)
  • 0826520243 (paperback)
  • 9780826520258 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2014015257