Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-251) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

Ages 10 up

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Strong inside

Oclc number

1003812562

Responsibility statement

Andrew Maraniss

resource.studyProgramName

MG, Accelerated Reader AR, 7.9, 8.0, 186511.

Sub title

the true story of how Perry Wallace broke college basketball's color line ;

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

Target audience

juvenile

Classification