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Strong Inside - Andrew Maraniss

By Andrew Maraniss

Release Date: 2024-03-15

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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New York Times Best Seller
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee ā€œOutstandingā€ 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 Insideā€™s publication in 2014 and Perry Wallaceā€™s death in 2017 and exploring Wallaceā€™s continuing legacy.

Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended ā€œseparate but equal.ā€ As a twelve-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashvilleā€™s lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.ā€™s ā€œI Have a Dreamā€ 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 Tennesseeā€™s first integrated state tournamentā€”the same day Adolph Ruppā€™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.

Strong Inside - Andrew Maraniss

By Andrew Maraniss

Release Date: 2024-03-15

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

(0 ratings)
Read Download
New York Times Best Seller
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee ā€œOutstandingā€ 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 Insideā€™s publication in 2014 and Perry Wallaceā€™s death in 2017 and exploring Wallaceā€™s continuing legacy.

Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended ā€œseparate but equal.ā€ As a twelve-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashvilleā€™s lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.ā€™s ā€œI Have a Dreamā€ 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 Tennesseeā€™s first integrated state tournamentā€”the same day Adolph Ruppā€™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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