Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites to learn side by side. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace enrolled in high school and his sensational jumping, dunking, and rebounding abilities quickly earned him the attention of college basketball recruiters from top schools across the nation. In his senior year his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee's first racially-integrated state tournament.
- ISBN13 9780399548345
- Publish Date 20 December 2016 (first published 1 January 2014)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 24 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Philomel Books,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English