Perry Wallace

Perry Wallace (Vanderbilt University) The portion of 25th Avenue South in front of Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gymnasium will be ceremonially renamed “Perry Wallace Way” in memory of the trailblazing Vanderbilt student-athlete who integrated SEC varsity basketball in 1967. Wallace passed away on Dec. 1, 2017. The university… Read More

Perry Wallace, BE’70, the Vanderbilt University student-athlete who integrated Southeastern Conference varsity basketball, died Dec. 1. He was 69. “Vanderbilt, the sports world, and the entire country lost a civil rights icon today. We are deeply saddened by the passing of Perry Wallace, who through quiet strength and courage blazed… Read More

About 50 engineering students who find time to play SEC varsity sports or participate in Army and Navy ROTC programs were recognized recently by Dean Philippe Fauchet at a dinner in their honor. When a former trial lawyer with the United State Department of Justice and the first African American… Read More

Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Perry Wallace. (Vanderbilt University) Vanderbilt University will establish the Perry E. Wallace Jr. Scholarship to honor and recognize the achievements of Wallace, who, as a member of the Commodores’ basketball team, became the first African American to play varsity sports in the… Read More