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Tennessean Excerpt #2

December 1, 2014

tn_tncom_RGBIn the second of three Strong Inside excerpts in The Tennessean, today’s installment covers Perry Wallace’s first game at Mississippi State, an experience he later described as “hell on earth.”

Wallace will be coming to Nashville later this week for a series of appearances:

* Wednesday, Dec. 3, MP&F Speaker Series at the Nashville Public Library (downtown), 6 p..m.

* Thursday, Dec. 4, Vanderbilt University Library, 2 p.m. and Vanderbilt-Baylor basketball game, 6 p.m.

  • “In a magnificently reported, nuanced
    but raw account of basketball and racism in the South during the 1960s, Andrew Maraniss tells the story of Perry Wallace’s struggle, loneliness, perseverance and eventual self-realization. A rare story about physical and intellectual courage that is both shocking and triumphant. ”

    Bob Woodward, Washington Post associate editor and author

Watch Andrew Maraniss talk about his inspiration to write Strong Inside, featuring archival footage of Perry Wallace in action.
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