Strong Inside (Young Readers Edition) The True Story of How Perry Wallace Broke College Basketball's Color Line

Name: Strong Inside (Young Readers Edition) The True Story of How Perry Wallace Broke College Basketball's Color Line
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ISBN: 9781524737276

ISBN-10: 1524737275

ISBN-13: 9781524737276

Edition: 2017

Authors: Andrew Maraniss

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The inspirational true story of the first African American to play college basketball in the deeply segregated Southeastern Conference--a powerful moment in Black history. 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…

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List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2017
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: 12/26/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.51" wide x 7.68" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

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 Wallace in 1989 for a black history class.