Maraniss Andrew Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South 9780826520241

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Автор: Maraniss Andrew
Название: Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South
ISBN: 9780826520241
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Биографии деятелей спорта

Исследования азиатских и африканских этнических групп

Политика и политический строй

Гражданские права и гражданство

Игры с мячом

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ISBN-10: 0826520243
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 480
Вес: 0.68 кг.
Дата издания: 30.06.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 234 x 155 x 28
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Подзаголовок: Perry wallace and the collision of race and sports in the south
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee Outstanding TitleThis fast-paced, richly detailed biography, based on more than eighty interviews, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than weve come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallaces unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended separate but equal. As a 12-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashvilles lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech, Wallacehe entered high school, and later saw the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. On March 16, 1966, his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessees first integrated state tournament--the same day Adolph Rupps 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 himPerry, 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.On campus, he encountered the leading civil rights figures of the day, including Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Robert Kennedy--and he led Vanderbilts small group of black students to a meeting with the university chancellor to push for better treatment.On the basketball court, he experienced an Ole Miss boycott and the rabid hate of the Mississippi State fans in Starkville. Following his freshman year, the NCAA instituted the Lew Alcindor rule, which deprived Wallace of his signature move, the slam dunk.Despite this attempt to limit the influence of a rising tide of black stars, the final basket of Wallaces college career was a cathartic and defiant dunk, and the story Wallace told to the Vanderbilt Human Relations Committee and later The Tennessean was not the simple story of a triumphant trailblazer that many people wanted to hear. Yes, he had gone from hearing racial epithets when he appeared in his dormitory to being voted as the universitys most popular student, but, at the risk of being labeled ungrateful, he spoke truth to power in describing the daily slights and abuses he had overcome and what Martin Luther King had called the agonizing loneliness of a pioneer.

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