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- catalog abstract ""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 "uppity" new champion in his place. Here is the startling true story of the most famous-and most hated-black American of his day. "Papa Jack" takes us into a violent and sordid world. It is an astonishing tale of black defiance-and white retribution-set against the dramatic canvas of sports and spectacle in Jim Crow America." --from back cover.".
- catalog contributor b1254684.
- catalog created "c1983.".
- catalog date "1983".
- catalog date "c1983.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1983.".
- catalog description ""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 "uppity" new champion in his place. Here is the startling true story of the most famous-and most hated-black American of his day. "Papa Jack" takes us into a violent and sordid world. It is an astonishing tale of black defiance-and white retribution-set against the dramatic canvas of sports and spectacle in Jim Crow America." --from back cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 274 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0029266408".
- catalog issued "1983".
- catalog issued "c1983.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "Boxers (Sports) United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "GV1132.J7 R62 1983".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Jack, 1878-1946.".
- catalog title "Papa Jack : Jack Johnson and the era of white hopes / Randy Roberts.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".