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

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 0826520235
ISBN: 9780826520234
Physical Description: x, 467 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Publisher: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Forgiveness 1 -- 2 Short 26th 2 -- 3 WoompShow 17 -- 4 They Had the Wrong Guy 39 -- 5 Harvard of the South 49 -- 6 These Boys Never Faltered 68 -- 7 Somewhere Like Xanadu 87 -- 8 Reverse Migration 106 -- 9 Growing Pains 112 -- 10 Icicles in Raincoats 122 -- 11 Articulate Messengers 131 -- 12 A Hit or Miss Thing 138 -- 13 Inferno 159 -- 14 Subversion's Circuit Rider 167 -- 15 Trouble in Paradise 188 -- 16 Season of Loss 200 -- 17 Ghosts 215 -- 18 Memorial Magic 222 -- 19 Deepest Sense of Dread 245 -- 20 A Long, Hellish Trauma 252 -- 21 Destiny of Dissent 264 -- 22 Revolt 285 -- 23 Cruel Deception 298 -- 24 Black Fists 306 -- 25 Nevermore 321 -- 26 Bachelor of Ugliness 328 -- 27 Ticket Out of Town 352 -- 28 Time and Space 366 -- 29 Embrace 392 -- 30 Rising 415.