[Online library] Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
• Geoffrey C. Ward •
| #276483 in Books | Geoffrey C Ward | 2006-01-03 | 2006-01-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x1.40 x5.20l,1.14 | File Name: 0375710043 | 546 pages | Unforgivable Blackness The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Worth Every Penny!|By PS|What a fantastic biography - one of the most interesting I've ever read. You get a vivid picture of Jack Johnson - the man, the athlete, and the inimitable personality. Geoffrey Ward paints an equally vivid (and disturbing) picture of early 20th century America, with the scourge of racism running deep in the national character. Jack Johnson was an e|From Publishers Weekly|Johnson (1878–1946), boxing's first black heavyweight champion, was a lightning rod for controversy in early 20th-century America. Even many of his fellow African-Americans resented his unapologetic dominance of the ring and steady
In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age.
Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in the Jim Crow South to win the title of heavyweight champion of the world. At a time when whites ran everything in America, he took orders from no one and resolved to live as if color did not exist. While most blacks struggled simply to exist, he reveled in h...
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