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Bookmark or Share- Perry Wallace, College Basketball Pioneer, Is Dead at 69Perry Wallace, who became the first black varsity basketball player in Southeastern Conference history in the 1960s as a strong-rebounding forward for his hometown Vanderbilt...
- Perry Wallace - WikipediaPerry Eugene Wallace Jr. (February 19, 1948 – December 1, 2017) [1] was an American lawyer who was a professor of law at Washington College of Law. [2] He was the first African-American varsity athlete to play basketball under an athletic scholarship in the Southeastern Conference, playing for Vanderbilt University.
- Perry Wallace, pioneer who integrated SEC basketball, has diedPerry Wallace, BE’70, the Vanderbilt University student-athlete who integrated Southeastern Conference varsity basketball, died Dec. 1. He was 69. “Vanderbilt, the sports world, and the entire country lost a civil rights icon today.
- Perry Wallace, the first black basketball player in SEC, dies ...Perry Wallace, the first black basketball player in the Southeastern Conference, died in Montgomery Hospice Casey House (Rockville, Maryland) on Friday at age 69. The trailblazing post player at Vanderbilt was set to be honored on Saturday with the Michael L. Slive Dostinguished Service Award at the SEC football championship in Atlanta.
- Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and ...Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the SEC, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre.
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