Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes by Randy W. Roberts

Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes

Randy W. Roberts

274 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical sports challenging informative medium-paced
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When Jack Johnson defeated white heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries in 1910, it was America's notions of racial superiority that staggered under his blows. Amid riots and lynchings, the search began for the Great White Hope who could put the "uppit...

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