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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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Main Author: Maraniss, Andrew.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2014]
Physical Description: x, 467 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Subjects:
Wallace, Perry -- (Law professor)
Vanderbilt University -- Basketball -- History.
Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) -- History.
Vanderbilt University -- History.
Basketball players -- United States -- Biography.
Racism in sports -- Southern States -- History -- 20 century.
Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Basketball players -- Biography.
Racism -- Southern States -- History.
Sports -- Southern States -- History.
Civil rights -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- Race relations.

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