New York Times Best Seller2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition2015 Lillian Smith Book Award2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title When Strong Inside was first published ten years ago, no one could have predicted the impact the book would have on Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and communities across the nation. What began as a biography of Perry Wallace-the first African American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference (SEC)-became a catalyst for meaningful change and reconciliation between Wallace and the city that had rejected him. In this tenth-anniversary edition, scholars of race and sports Louis Moore and Derrick E. White provide a new foreword that places the story in the context of the study of sports and society, and author Andrew Maraniss adds a concluding chapter filling readers in on how events unfolded between Strong Inside's publication in 2014 and Perry Wallace's death in 2017 and exploring Wallace's continuing legacy. Wallace entered kindergarten the year that Brown v. Board of Education upended "separate but equal." As a twelve-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville's lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace entered high school, and later saw the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. On March 19, 1966, his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee's first integrated state tournament-the same day Adolph Rupp's all-white Kentucky Wildcats lost to the all-Black Texas Western Miners in an iconic NCAA title game. The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt recruited him, Wallace courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the SEC. His experiences on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be nothing like he ever imagined.

List of Illustrations Foreword 1. Forgiveness 2. Short 26th 3. Woomp Show 4. They Had the Wrong Guy 5. Harvard of the South 6. These Boys Never Faltered 7. Somewhere Like Xanadu 8. Reverse Migration 9. Growing Pains 10. Icicles in Raincoats 11. Articulate Messengers 12. A Hit or Miss Thing 13. Inferno 14. Subversion's Circuit Rider 15. Trouble in Paradise 16. Season of Loss 17. Ghosts 18. Memorial Magic 19. Deepest Sense of Dread 20. A Long, Hellish Trauma 21. Destiny of Dissent 22. Revolt 23. The Cruel Deception 24. Black Fists 25. Nevermore 26. Bachelor of Ugliness 27. Ticket Out of Town 28. Time and Space 29. Embrace 30. Rising Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Author Biography