Title:
Unforgivable blackness : the rise and fall of Jack Johnson
Author:
Ward, Geoffrey C.
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Edition:
First Vintage Books edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 2006.
©2004
Physical Description:
xi, 492 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary:
Presents the life of the first black heavyweight boxing champion, whose flamboyant personality and defiance of racial stereotypes in the early twentieth century often made him the object of public outrage and a target of law enforcement officials.
General Note:
Originally published: Knopf, 2004.
Language:
English
Contents:
Book one: The rise -- The pure-blooded American -- The good man -- The sport -- The man they all dodge -- The man with the golden smile -- The champion -- The greatest colored man that ever lived -- Book two: The fall -- The brunette in a blond town -- The black man garbed in black -- The accused -- The fugitive -- The stepper.
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ISBN:
9780375710049
Format :
Book
