So said Perry Wallace on March 8th, 1970, to young Tennessean reporter Frank Sutherland the day after Wallace played his last basketball game at Vanderbilt. That interview made front page news the day the story ran: Wallace had been a high profile athlete at Vanderbilt from the moment he signed on, the first black basketball player not only at Vanderbilt but in the entire Southeastern …
November 11, 2014
by jenniferpuryear
“I Have Been a Very Lonely Person at Vanderbilt”
Book Title: Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South