Strong inside : the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line / Andrew Maraniss.
| Author/creator | Maraniss, Andrew author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2018. |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 262 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index. |
| Interest age level | Ages 10 up. |
| Audience | 1170 Lexile |
| Reading Program | Accelerated Reader AR 7.9 8.0 |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| ISBN | 9781524737276 paperback |
| ISBN | 1524737275 paperback |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | TRC Biographies | B W1556M | ✔ Available | Place Hold |