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Strong inside : Perry Wallace and the collision of race and sports in the South

"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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maraniss, Andrew.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
Subjects and Genres:
Wallace, Perry > (Law professor)
Vanderbilt University > Basketball > History.
Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) > History.
Basketball players > United States > Biography.
Racism in sports > Southern States > History > 20 century.
Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States > Race relations.
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Table of 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.

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