Strong Inside
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Strong Inside

Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South

  1. 480 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Strong Inside

Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South

About this book

New York Times Best Seller
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title

When Strong Inside was first published ten years ago, no one could have predicted the impact the book would have on Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and communities across the nation. What began as a biography of Perry Wallaceā€”the first African American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference (SEC)ā€”became a catalyst for meaningful change and reconciliation between Wallace and the city that had rejected him. In this tenth-anniversary edition, scholars of race and sports Louis Moore and Derrick E. White provide a new foreword that places the story in the context of the study of sports and society, and author Andrew Maraniss adds a concluding chapter filling readers in on how events unfolded between Strong Inside's publication in 2014 and Perry Wallace's death in 2017 and exploring Wallace's continuing legacy.

Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended "separate but equal." As a twelve-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville's lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace entered high school, and later saw the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. On March 19, 1966, his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee's first integrated state tournamentā€”the same day Adolph Rupp's all-white Kentucky Wildcats lost to the all-Black Texas Western Miners in an iconic NCAA title game.

The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt recruited him, Wallace courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the SEC. His experiences on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be nothing like he ever imagined.

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Information

Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9780826506931
Print ISBN
9780826506924
9780826506955
Subtopic
North American History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Epigraph
  9. Foreword to the Second Edition
  10. 1. Forgiveness
  11. 2. Short 26th
  12. 3. Woomp Show
  13. 4. They Had the Wrong Guy
  14. 5. Harvard of the South
  15. 6. These Boys Never Faltered
  16. 7. Somewhere Like Xanadu
  17. 8. Reverse Migration
  18. 9. Growing Pains
  19. 10. Icicles in Raincoats
  20. 11. Articulate Messengers
  21. 12. A Hit or Miss Thing
  22. 13. Inferno
  23. 14. Subversionā€™s Circuit Rider
  24. 15. Trouble in Paradise
  25. 16. Season of Loss
  26. 17. Ghosts
  27. 18. Memorial Magic
  28. 19. Deepest Sense of Dread
  29. 20. A Long, Hellish Trauma
  30. 21. Destiny of Dissent
  31. 22. Revolt
  32. 23. The Cruel Deception
  33. 24. Black Fists
  34. 25. Nevermore
  35. 26. Bachelor of Ugliness
  36. 27. Ticket Out of Town
  37. 28. Time and Space
  38. 29. Embrace
  39. 30. Rising
  40. Epilogue
  41. Acknowledgments
  42. Notes
  43. Bibliography
  44. Index
  45. Author Biography

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