Wolfe Perry

A caucasian prospective grad student's affluent family won't pay his way through law school, so he takes tanning pills to darken his skin in order to qualify for an African-American scholarship at Harvard. He soon gets more than he bargained for, as he begins to learn what life is really like for blacks in America.

The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.