Author: Jack Johnson
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787204782
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First published in 1927, Jack Johnson’s autobiography, Jack Johnson: In the Ring and Out, remains the key source for information about his life. As he himself states in it: “I am astounded when I realize that there are few men in any period of the world’s history, who have led a more varied or intense existence than I [have].” Jack Johnson, who became the first black heavyweight boxing champion in the world in 1908, was the preeminent American sports personality of his era, a man whose success in the ring spurred a worldwide search, tinged with bigotry, for a “Great White Hope” to defeat him. Handsome, successful, and personable, Johnson was known as much for his exploits outside of the ring as for his boxing skills. He married three white women in a time when such interracial unions resulted in denunciations of him from the floor of the United States Congress. He made big money, spent it lavishly, and lived grandly. And in doing so he gained admirers and detractors all over the world and became, quite simply, one of the best known men of the early twentieth century.
Jack Johnson
Author: Jack Johnson
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787204782
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First published in 1927, Jack Johnson’s autobiography, Jack Johnson: In the Ring and Out, remains the key source for information about his life. As he himself states in it: “I am astounded when I realize that there are few men in any period of the world’s history, who have led a more varied or intense existence than I [have].” Jack Johnson, who became the first black heavyweight boxing champion in the world in 1908, was the preeminent American sports personality of his era, a man whose success in the ring spurred a worldwide search, tinged with bigotry, for a “Great White Hope” to defeat him. Handsome, successful, and personable, Johnson was known as much for his exploits outside of the ring as for his boxing skills. He married three white women in a time when such interracial unions resulted in denunciations of him from the floor of the United States Congress. He made big money, spent it lavishly, and lived grandly. And in doing so he gained admirers and detractors all over the world and became, quite simply, one of the best known men of the early twentieth century.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1787204782
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
First published in 1927, Jack Johnson’s autobiography, Jack Johnson: In the Ring and Out, remains the key source for information about his life. As he himself states in it: “I am astounded when I realize that there are few men in any period of the world’s history, who have led a more varied or intense existence than I [have].” Jack Johnson, who became the first black heavyweight boxing champion in the world in 1908, was the preeminent American sports personality of his era, a man whose success in the ring spurred a worldwide search, tinged with bigotry, for a “Great White Hope” to defeat him. Handsome, successful, and personable, Johnson was known as much for his exploits outside of the ring as for his boxing skills. He married three white women in a time when such interracial unions resulted in denunciations of him from the floor of the United States Congress. He made big money, spent it lavishly, and lived grandly. And in doing so he gained admirers and detractors all over the world and became, quite simply, one of the best known men of the early twentieth century.
Jack Johnson-in the Ring-and Out. By Jack Johnson, Etc. [With Plates.].
Jack Johnson in the Ring and Out
Author: Jack Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American boxers
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American boxers
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Jack Johnson in the Ring and Out
Author: Jack Johnson
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780810340473
Category : African American boxers
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780810340473
Category : African American boxers
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Jack Johnson
Author: Jack Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494076672
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494076672
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
My Life in the Ring and Out
Author: Jack Johnson
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486456102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The first African American to win the world heavyweight championship, Johnson recounts without bitterness the prejudice that dogged his public and private lives and his international adventures as a bon vivant.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486456102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The first African American to win the world heavyweight championship, Johnson recounts without bitterness the prejudice that dogged his public and private lives and his international adventures as a bon vivant.
Jack Johnson
Author: Damon Runyon
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806513584
Category : African American boxers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Autobiography of the black American boxer.
Publisher: Citadel Press
ISBN: 9780806513584
Category : African American boxers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Autobiography of the black American boxer.
Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner
Author: Theresa Runstedtler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520280113
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Discusses the life and boxing career of Jack Johnson.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520280113
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Discusses the life and boxing career of Jack Johnson.
Jack Johnson, in the Ring in and Out
Author: Jack Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American boxers
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American boxers
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Great White Hope
Author: Howard Sackler
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573609602
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"[The dramatist] has used his hero, a fighter based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson ... as a symbol in part of Black aspiration"--Back cover.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573609602
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"[The dramatist] has used his hero, a fighter based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson ... as a symbol in part of Black aspiration"--Back cover.