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Godfrey Dillard Runs for Michigan Office

October 5, 2014

godfrey dillard 910-090214While Perry Wallace was a solitary pioneer on the Vanderbilt varsity team from 1968-70, he had a black teammate on the freshman team in 1967, Godfrey Dillard. Dillard’s experience at Vanderbilt is detailed in Strong Inside. Like Wallace, Dillard has gone onto a successful career in the law, and he is now running for Secretary of State in Michigan. Today, the Detroit Free Press profiled Dillard and his opponent.

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  • “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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