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

by Andrew Maraniss

Book Overview

New York Times Best Seller
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title

Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the SEC, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826520235
• ISBN13: 9780826520234
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.4" x 10.3"