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VU Scholarship Named for Wallace

October 30, 2015

Perry_Wallace_Nicholas_Zeppos_fiSeveral members of Perry Wallace’s Vanderbilt Class of 1970 came together to raise the funds necessary to endow a Vanderbilt engineering scholarship in Wallace’s name. The announcement of the scholarship was made by Vanderbilt Chancellor Nick Zeppos during Homecoming/Reunion weekend in Nashville. Here’s a story by Mike Organ of the Tennessean, and here’s one from Vanderbilt’s news service.

  • “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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