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Podcast: This Is Nashville
Episode: Strong Inside: A courtside look at Nashville hero Perry Wallace
Description: Nashville Children's Theatre presents the world premiere of "Strong Inside," the story of Perry Wallace, a Nashville pioneer on the basketball court and civil rights leader.
Wallace attended Pearl High School where he was a star athlete, known as “King of the Board” for his slam dunks. In 1966, he was recruited by Vanderbilt University — becoming the first African-American to play basketball in the segregated Southeastern Conference. Wallace excelled on the basketball court and in the classroom, while enduring racial hatred in the gym and on campus. “Strong Inside” is Wallace’s biography, written by Andrew Maraniss, and later adapted...