Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace
Documentary
★ 4.0·2018·1h 36m
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...
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Cast
Forest Whitaker
Narrator (voice)
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Perry Wallace
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Andrew Young
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Harry Edwards
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Eric Holder
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Oscar Robertson
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Marshall Chapman
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Andrew Maraniss
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DIRECTOR
Rich Gentile
OVERVIEW
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.