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Perry Wallace is a professor of law at Washington College of Law.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Perry Wallace, Professor of Law )〕 He was the first African American varsity athlete to play under an athletic scholarship in the Southeastern Conference, playing basketball for Vanderbilt University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SEC Trailblazer Perry Wallace Will Speak at Landon )〕 His experiences at Vanderbilt are the subject of the book ''Strong Inside'', by Andrew Maraniss, published in 2014. ==Education== Wallace attended Pearl High School in the then segregated Nashville public schools. He was a straight-A student, valedictorian of his class and was named a high school All-American athlete.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Perry Wallace )〕 Wallace was recruited by many colleges,〔 and enrolled at Vanderbilt in 1966. In 1967, he became the first black scholarship athlete to play in the Southeastern Conference. However, contrary to widely stated belief, he was not the first black athlete to play in the SEC—in spring 1966, Stephen Martin, who was on an academic scholarship at Tulane, played baseball during that school's final season in the 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.〔 He earned his law degree from Columbia University in 1975.〔 Perry Wallace 1967-1970 Jersey Retired 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Perry Wallace」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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