Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace
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Documentary
•- Runtime
- 96 mins
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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.
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.
Cast
- Forest Whitaker
- Perry Wallace
- Andrew Young
- Harry Edwards
- Eric Holder
- Oscar Robertson
- Marshall Chapman
- Andrew Maraniss
- Roy M. Neel
- Pat Toomay
- Alexander Wolff
Director
- Rich Gentile
Producers
Screenwriter
- Rich Gentile
- Eli Spielman
