Perry Wallace

Nacimiento : 1948-02-19, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Muerte : 2017-12-01

Historia

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.

Películas

Triumph: the Untold Story of Perry Wallace
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.