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With Perry Wallace, Andrew Young, Harry Edwards, Eric Holder. According to Washington Post columnist and best-selling author John Feinstein, "What Perry Wallace accomplished in breaking the color line in the SEC is one of the great untold stories of the last 50 years."
- Rich Gentile, Rich Gentile
- 2018-03-23
- Documentary, Biography, Family
- 95
Perry Wallace becomes the first African-American college student to play basketball in the segregated Southeastern Conference in the 1960s.
- Rich Gentile
- Documentary
23 mar 2018 · However, Perry Wallace, the first black college athlete in the Southeast Conference, was a mere teenager who stood all alone at center court in such hotbeds of rabid racism as Starkville, Mississippi and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
30 gen 2019 · Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace, the documentary that tells the story of the first African American varsity basketball player in the SEC, is now available for educational screenings.
- Kate Derrick
This is not just the story of a trailblazing athlete, but of civil rights, race in America, a campus in transition during the tumultuous ’60s, the mental toll of pioneering, decades of ostracism, and eventual reconciliation and healing.
5 dic 2017 · Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace was directed by Rich Gentile. It is narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whittaker. The film was commissioned by Vanderbilt University, and Zeppos is one of the film’s executive producers. it is not yet commercially released.
23 mar 2018 · Perry Wallace's untold story provides a fresh lens on the dramatic struggle for racial equality in a hotbed of hostility during one of America's most turbulent decades. His personal courage and sacrifice changed not only the SEC, but the entire South.
