Strong inside
About this book
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 basketball team won Tennessee's first racially-integrated state tournament.
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- OL Work ID
- OL20049304W
Subjects
Race relationsBasketballVanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team)Racism in sportsCivil rightsBasketball playersBiographyHistoryBasketball, biographyBasketball, juvenile literatureCivil rights, united statesCivil rights, juvenile literatureRace discriminationRace, juvenile literatureSouthern states, race relationsSouthern states, juvenile literatureBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports