He never lost faith, especially that first night at a beach parking lot after leaving Philadelphia for California only to learn their new home had disappeared.
Armstead not only has survived, he has flourished.He is the first player from a historically Black college to receive the Perry Wallace Most Courageous Award from the Basketball Writers Association.Jeremiah Armstead moved around so much he wasn't even eligible to play high school basketball until his senior year.
"He let us stay there," Armstead said. "So just encounters like that, with like everyday good people, it just helped me to not, like, be mad at the world and what I got going on and just wait, which I did. I waited four or five years, and now it's something finally changing."On Monday, the Fisk forward will make history as the first player from a historically Black college or university or NAIA school to receive the Perry Wallace Most Courageous Award from the U.S.
The 6-foot-5 Armstead was born in Atlanta and lived in Philadelphia until his mother moved to Long Beach, California, to live with someone close enough to count as family. Except that woman unexpectedly moved to Texas, leaving Mindy Brooks and her three children stranded. Stephen Bernstein helped connect Armstead with Fisk through his foundation, We Educate Brilliant Minds, based in Los Angeles.
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