Screen LibraryStrong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line /
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,...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Published: |
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
|
| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2017 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | |
| Summary: |
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. |
| Item Description: | "Adapted for young people from Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2014" -- T.p. |
| Carrier Form: | 262 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Audience: | Ages 10 up. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781524737276 (paperback) : 1524737275 (paperback) |
| CLC: | K837.125.47 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.47/W193M |