Andrew Maraniss

History

Andrew Maraniss is an American author, best known for his book "Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the collision of race and sports in the south ", depicting Perry Wallace, the first African-American to play college basketball under an athletic scholarship in the Southeastern Conference in the 1960s.

Movies

Triumph: the Untold Story of Perry Wallace

Self

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.