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Perry Wallace

Born — Died

1948-02-19 — 2017-12-01

Place of birth

Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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Perry Eugene Wallace Jr. was an American lawyer who was a professor of law at Washington College of Law. He was the first African-American varsity athlete to play basketball under an athletic scholarship in the Southeastern Conference, playing for Vanderbilt University.

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Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace poster
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Whenever the phrase "breaking the color line" is used, there's a temptation to invoke Jackie Robinson's story. However, Perry Wallace, the first black college athlete in the Southeast Conference, was a mere teenager who stood all alone at center court in such hotbeds of rabid racism as Starkville, Mississippi and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace

2018

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