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Unforgivable blackness : the rise and fall of Jack Johnson / by Geoffrey C. Ward.
Van Pelt Library GV1132.J7 W37 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Jack, 1878-1946.
- Johnson, Jack.
- Boxers (Sports)--United States--Biography.
- Boxers (Sports).
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 492 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Vintage books edition.
- Other Title:
- Rise and fall of Jack Johnson
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 2006.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Knopf, 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-478) and index.
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 2005
- ISBN:
- 0375710043
- 9780375710049
- OCLC:
- 62790310
- Publisher Number:
- 99969434360
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