Strong Inside : Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South /

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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Maraniss, Andrew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Wallace, Perry > (Law professor)
Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) > History.
Vanderbilt University > History.
Vanderbilt University.
Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team)
Vanderbilt University > Basketball > History.
Civil rights > Southern States > History.
Sports > Southern States > History.
Racism > Southern States > History.
Basketball players > Biography.
Racism in sports.
Race relations.
Civil rights.
Basketball players.
Basketball.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
Sports.
Civil rights > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Racism in sports > Southern States > History > 20 century.
Basketball players > United States > Biography.
Southern States > Race relations.
United States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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 struggles and ultimate success into the larger contexts of civil rights and race relations in the South"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (480 pages): illustrations ;
ISBN:9780826520258

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