Wallace, Perry (Law professor)

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Name (Latin)
Wallace, Perry (Law professor)
Date of birth
1948-02-19
Date of death
2017-12-01
Gender
male
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Other Identifiers

VIAF: 311458616
Wikidata: Q7169966
Library of congress: n 2014064378
Sources of Information
  • Strong inside, 2014:ECIP t.p. (Perry Wallace) ECIP galley (professor of law; first African American varsity athlete to play under an athletic scholarship in the Souteastern Conference; played for Vanderbilt University)
  • Wikipedia, viewed June 10, 2024(Perry Wallace; Perry Eugene Wallace Jr. (February 19, 1948-December 1, 2017) was an American lawyer who was a professor of law at Washington College of Law. He was the first African-American varsity athlete to play basketball under an athletic scholarship in the Southeastern Conference, playing for Vanderbilt University)

Wikipedia description:

Perry Eugene Wallace Jr. (February 19, 1948 – December 1, 2017) was an American lawyer who was a professor of law at Washington College of Law. He was the first African-American varsity athlete to play basketball under an athletic scholarship in the Southeastern Conference, playing for Vanderbilt University. His experiences at Vanderbilt are the subject of the book Strong Inside, by Andrew Maraniss, published in 2014.

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