Perry Wallace (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Perry Wallace is a professor of law at Washington College of Law He was the first African American varsity athlete in the Southeastern Conference, playing basketball for Vanderbilt University.Wallace was recruited by many colleges, and enrolled at Vanderbilt in 1966. In 1967, he became the first black athlete to play in the Southeastern Conference. Wallace was welcomed by his teammates, but traveling with the team was difficult, and Wallace was often threatened from opposing teams with verbal taunts and roughness on the court. He graduated with a degree in engineering in 1970, and was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers. In the following season, basketball teams from Alabama, Kentucky, Florida and Georgia contained black athletes.