Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
Autor Andrew Maraniss Cuvânt înainte de Derrick E. White, Louis Mooreen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mar 2024
2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition
2015 Lillian Smith Book Award
2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title
When Strong Inside was first published ten years ago, no one could have predicted the impact the book would have on Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and communities across the nation. What began as a biography of Perry Wallace—the first African American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference (SEC)—became a catalyst for meaningful change and reconciliation between Wallace and the city that had rejected him. In this tenth-anniversary edition, scholars of race and sports Louis Moore and Derrick E. White provide a new foreword that places the story in the context of the study of sports and society, and author Andrew Maraniss adds a concluding chapter filling readers in on how events unfolded between Strong Inside’s publication in 2014 and Perry Wallace’s death in 2017 and exploring Wallace’s continuing legacy.
Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended “separate but equal.” As a twelve-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville’s lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Wallace entered high school, and later saw the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. On March 19, 1966, his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee’s first integrated state tournament—the same day Adolph Rupp’s all-white Kentucky Wildcats lost to the all-Black Texas Western Miners in an iconic NCAA title game.
The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt recruited him, Wallace courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the SEC. His experiences on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be nothing like he ever imagined.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780826506924
ISBN-10: 0826506925
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: 36 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: Vanderbilt University Press
Colecția Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN-10: 0826506925
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: 36 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Ediția:Second Edition
Editura: Vanderbilt University Press
Colecția Vanderbilt University Press
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Notă biografică
Andrew Maraniss is a New York Times–bestselling author of sports nonfiction for adults, teens, and children. In addition to Strong Inside, his work includes Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany; Singled Out: The True Story of Glenn Burke; Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women’s Olympic Basketball Team; and the Young Readers adaptation of Strong Inside.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Foreword
1. Forgiveness
2. Short 26th
3. Woomp Show
4. They Had the Wrong Guy
5. Harvard of the South
6. These Boys Never Faltered
7. Somewhere Like Xanadu
8. Reverse Migration
9. Growing Pains
10. Icicles in Raincoats
11. Articulate Messengers
12. A Hit or Miss Thing
13. Inferno
14. Subversion’s Circuit Rider
15. Trouble in Paradise
16. Season of Loss
17. Ghosts
18. Memorial Magic
19. Deepest Sense of Dread
20. A Long, Hellish Trauma
21. Destiny of Dissent
22. Revolt
23. The Cruel Deception
24. Black Fists
25. Nevermore
26. Bachelor of Ugliness
27. Ticket Out of Town
28. Time and Space
29. Embrace
30. Rising
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Author Biography
Foreword
1. Forgiveness
2. Short 26th
3. Woomp Show
4. They Had the Wrong Guy
5. Harvard of the South
6. These Boys Never Faltered
7. Somewhere Like Xanadu
8. Reverse Migration
9. Growing Pains
10. Icicles in Raincoats
11. Articulate Messengers
12. A Hit or Miss Thing
13. Inferno
14. Subversion’s Circuit Rider
15. Trouble in Paradise
16. Season of Loss
17. Ghosts
18. Memorial Magic
19. Deepest Sense of Dread
20. A Long, Hellish Trauma
21. Destiny of Dissent
22. Revolt
23. The Cruel Deception
24. Black Fists
25. Nevermore
26. Bachelor of Ugliness
27. Ticket Out of Town
28. Time and Space
29. Embrace
30. Rising
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Author Biography
Descriere
Now in an updated edition, the story of the first African American basketball player in the SEC, set in the civil rights conflicts of the tumultuous Sixties
Recenzii
"What Perry Wallace accomplished in breaking the color line in the Southeastern Conference has been one of the great untold stories of the last 50 years. Now, thanks to Andrew Maraniss and Professor Wallace, it has become one of the great TOLD stories of the last 50 years with this unforgettable book."
--John Feinstein, author of Foul Trouble and Where Nobody Knows Your Name
"...thorough and engaging...a long-overdue tribute to this little-known player."
--Washington Post
"Like any great biography, Strong Inside is about more than just its subject. It is a history of Vanderbilt, of Nashville, of the SEC; a history of basketball and Southern sports culture and how they clashed, time and again, with the forces of civil rights that transformed America in the 1960s. Above all it is a meditation on the personal price of progress, about what happens to the people we ask to be racial pioneers, and what we--as whites, as blacks--owe to them in return."
--Clay Risen, Chapter 16 contributor and New York Times editor
"Andrew Maraniss has written a gripping account of the tortured ordeal suffered by Perry Wallace, the celebrated college basketball star, who, in 1966, as a Vanderbilt Commodore, broke the color barrier in the Southeastern Conference. It is a story of a young black student's courage in the face of taunting abuse from hostile opposing fans--and the dissension that faced him on the Vanderbilt campus."
--John Seigenthaler, Founder, First Amendment Center
"Andrew Maraniss's father, David, once said, 'History writes people out of the story. It's our job to write them back in.' In the case of Perry Wallace, Andrew has done that superbly. He writes with equal ability of race and class, talent and ambition, and the possibilities and limits of each. I did not know Perry Wallace's story. Andrew has brought it to us, and we should be happy he did."
--Howard Bryant, author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
"In a magnificently reported, nuanced but raw account of basketball and racism in the South during the 1960s, Andrew Maraniss tells the story of Perry Wallace's struggle, loneliness, perseverance and eventual self-realization. A rare story about physical and intellectual courage that is both shocking and triumphant."
--Bob Woodward, Washington Post associate editor and author
"I covered basketball during the years Perry Wallace was at Vanderbilt, learning firsthand the stories of so many African American athletes. Many of them were pioneers in one respect or another, but none whom I ever spoke with endured such an experience as did Wallace--as related so thoughtfully and comprehensively in this sensitive biography by Andrew Maraniss. Arthur Ashe entitled his history of the black athlete A Hard Road To Glory. No road could have been harder than Perry Wallace's, no glory more satisfying."
--Frank Deford, NPR, HBO, and Sports Illustrated contributor
"It is at the dawn of a tumultuous era that Andrew Maraniss sets Strong Inside, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius."
--SLAM Magazine
"With insight into the motivation and maturing of an African American man amid rabid hostility in the age of desegregation, Maraniss presents social and sports historians and interested readers with an engaging tour that exposes the challenges of change in the South and in college sports with the arrival of black athletes center stage in the white world."
--Library Journal
"A dark but finally inspiring story that can now be told in perspective, and Maraniss tells it thoroughly well."
--Roy Blount Jr.
"...a thoroughly researched and compelling account of Perry Wallace...As much history lesson as biography, Maraniss's account paints a detailed picture of the civil rights movement on several levels: in gymnasiums, on campuses, in Nashville, and across the nation...The combination of sports and sociopolitical history will appeal to both basketball fans and students of civil rights."
--Booklist
"Nuanced and complex, Strong Inside is an invaluable resource for studying the state of race relations in the US, both past and present...Highly recommended."
--Choice
"...powerfully told..."
--New York Times
--John Feinstein, author of Foul Trouble and Where Nobody Knows Your Name
"...thorough and engaging...a long-overdue tribute to this little-known player."
--Washington Post
"Like any great biography, Strong Inside is about more than just its subject. It is a history of Vanderbilt, of Nashville, of the SEC; a history of basketball and Southern sports culture and how they clashed, time and again, with the forces of civil rights that transformed America in the 1960s. Above all it is a meditation on the personal price of progress, about what happens to the people we ask to be racial pioneers, and what we--as whites, as blacks--owe to them in return."
--Clay Risen, Chapter 16 contributor and New York Times editor
"Andrew Maraniss has written a gripping account of the tortured ordeal suffered by Perry Wallace, the celebrated college basketball star, who, in 1966, as a Vanderbilt Commodore, broke the color barrier in the Southeastern Conference. It is a story of a young black student's courage in the face of taunting abuse from hostile opposing fans--and the dissension that faced him on the Vanderbilt campus."
--John Seigenthaler, Founder, First Amendment Center
"Andrew Maraniss's father, David, once said, 'History writes people out of the story. It's our job to write them back in.' In the case of Perry Wallace, Andrew has done that superbly. He writes with equal ability of race and class, talent and ambition, and the possibilities and limits of each. I did not know Perry Wallace's story. Andrew has brought it to us, and we should be happy he did."
--Howard Bryant, author of The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron
"In a magnificently reported, nuanced but raw account of basketball and racism in the South during the 1960s, Andrew Maraniss tells the story of Perry Wallace's struggle, loneliness, perseverance and eventual self-realization. A rare story about physical and intellectual courage that is both shocking and triumphant."
--Bob Woodward, Washington Post associate editor and author
"I covered basketball during the years Perry Wallace was at Vanderbilt, learning firsthand the stories of so many African American athletes. Many of them were pioneers in one respect or another, but none whom I ever spoke with endured such an experience as did Wallace--as related so thoughtfully and comprehensively in this sensitive biography by Andrew Maraniss. Arthur Ashe entitled his history of the black athlete A Hard Road To Glory. No road could have been harder than Perry Wallace's, no glory more satisfying."
--Frank Deford, NPR, HBO, and Sports Illustrated contributor
"It is at the dawn of a tumultuous era that Andrew Maraniss sets Strong Inside, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius."
--SLAM Magazine
"With insight into the motivation and maturing of an African American man amid rabid hostility in the age of desegregation, Maraniss presents social and sports historians and interested readers with an engaging tour that exposes the challenges of change in the South and in college sports with the arrival of black athletes center stage in the white world."
--Library Journal
"A dark but finally inspiring story that can now be told in perspective, and Maraniss tells it thoroughly well."
--Roy Blount Jr.
"...a thoroughly researched and compelling account of Perry Wallace...As much history lesson as biography, Maraniss's account paints a detailed picture of the civil rights movement on several levels: in gymnasiums, on campuses, in Nashville, and across the nation...The combination of sports and sociopolitical history will appeal to both basketball fans and students of civil rights."
--Booklist
"Nuanced and complex, Strong Inside is an invaluable resource for studying the state of race relations in the US, both past and present...Highly recommended."
--Choice
"...powerfully told..."
--New York Times