Strong Inside

Description:

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.

subjects: Race relations,  Basketball,  Vanderbilt University,  Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team),  Racism in sports,  Civil rights,  Basketball players,  Biography,  History,  Basketball, biography,  Basketball, juvenile literature,  Civil rights, united states,  Civil rights, juvenile literature,  Race discrimination,  Race, juvenile literature,  Southern states, race relations,  Southern states, juvenile literature,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports,  POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Civil Rights,  HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV),  nyt:race-and-civil-rights=2015-01-11,  New York Times bestseller,  Sports,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Political Freedom & Security,  State & Local,  South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV),  Racism

People: Perry Wallace (Law professor)

Places: Southern States

Times: 20th century