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Mar 23, 2018 · 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."
Perry Wallace becomes the first African-American college student to play basketball in the segregated Southeastern Conference in the 1960s.
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Mar 23, 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.
Mar 23, 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.
TRIUMPH: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PERRY WALLACE with Director Rich Gentile – Martha's Vineyard Film Society. Directed by Rich Gentile. USA | 2018 | 95 minutes | Not Rated | Biography, Documentary. Buy Tickets. $12 General Admission, $9 Member, $7 child age 14 or younger.
Mar 22, 2018 · The documentary “Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace” looks back at the Vanderbilt student who became the first black basketball player in the SEC in 1967.
Jan 30, 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.
