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Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace

  • March 2018
  • 1hr

    36mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Rich Gentile,

    Bruce D. Johnson,

    Rich Gentile,

    Starring

    Forest Whitaker,

    Perry Wallace,

    Andrew Young,

    Harry Edwards

    ...

    Whenever the phrase "breaking the color line" is used, there's a temptation to invoke Jackie Robinson's story. However, Perry Wallace, the first black college athlete in the Southeast Conference, was a mere teenager who stood all alone at center court in such hotbeds of rabid racism as Starkville, Mississippi and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.