Title Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line ; Andrew Maraniss.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018.
	©2017

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Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department	J BIO WALLACE	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Tween	TWEEN B WALLACE PERRY	Check Shelf

Description	262 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Note	"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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index.
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.
Audience	Ages 10 up.
Study Program	MG Accelerated Reader AR 7.9 8.0 186511.
Subject	Wallace, Perry (Law professor) -- Juvenile literature.
	Vanderbilt University -- Basketball -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Wallace, Perry (Law professor) (OCoLC)fst01942154
	Vanderbilt Commodores (Basketball team) (OCoLC)fst00658423
	Vanderbilt University. (OCoLC)fst00534988
	Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Racism in sports -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Southern States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
	Basketball players -- Tennessee -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Basketball players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Basketball. (OCoLC)fst00828203
	Basketball players. (OCoLC)fst00828280
	Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00862627
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	Racism in sports. (OCoLC)fst01086664
	Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
	Tennessee. (OCoLC)fst01205353
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN	9781524737276 (paperback)
	1524737275 (paperback)

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