Andrew Maraniss Strong Inside: Perry Wallace & the Collision of Race & Sports

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 Wallacethe first African American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference (SEC)became a catalyst for meaningful change and reconciliation between Wallace and the city that had rejected him. In this tenthanniversary 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 Insides publication in 2014 and Perry Wallaces death in 2017 and exploring Wallaces continuing legacy. Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended "separate but equal." As a twelveyearold, he sneaked downtown to watch the sitins at Nashvilles 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 Tennessees first integrated state tournamentthe same day Adolph Rupps allwhite Kentucky Wildcats lost to the... | Andrew Maraniss Strong Inside: Perry Wallace & the Collision of Race & Sports