Jack Johnson is a Dandy
Author : Jack Johnson
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 1969
Category : African American boxers
ISBN :
Author : Jack Johnson
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 1969
Category : African American boxers
ISBN :
Author : Jack Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Boxers (Sports)
ISBN :
Author : Thomas R. Hietala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317470621
This is a revealing look at the history of race relations in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century portrayed through the lives and times of the first two African-American heavyweight boxing champions, Jack Johnson and Joe Louis. Incorporating extensive research into the black press of the time, the author explores how the public careers and private lives of these two sports figures both define and explain vital national issues from the early 1900s to the late 1940s.
Author : Adele Logan Alexander
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 20,78 MB
Release : 2000-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0679758712
This monumental history traces the rise of a resolute African American family (the author's own) from privation to the middle class. In doing so, it explodes the stereotypes that have shaped and distorted our thinking about African Americans--both in slavery and in freedom. Beginning with John Robert Bond, who emigrated from England to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War and married a recently freed slave, Alexander shows three generations of Bonds as they take chances and break new ground. From Victorian England to antebellum Virginia, from Herman Melville's New England to the Jim Crow South, from urban race riots to the battlefields of World War I, this fascinating chronicle sheds new light on eighty crucial years in our nation's troubled history. The Bond family's rise from slavery, their interaction with prominent figures such as W. E. B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, and their eventual, uneasy realization of the American dream shed a great deal of light on our nation's troubled heritage.
Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252071485
A biography of Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919-1926.
Author : David C. King
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761431206
Celebrates the diversity of life through the exploration of cultures around the world.
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Archival resources
ISBN :
Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 28,87 MB
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806189096
The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New YorkSun reporter into writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is one of history’s great ironies, as Robert K. DeArment relates in this engaging new book. William Barclay “Bat” Masterson spent the first half of his adult life in the West, planting the seeds for his later legend as he moved from Texas to Kansas and then Colorado. In Denver his gambling habit and combative nature drew him to the still-developing sport of prizefighting. Masterson attended almost every important match in the United States from the 1880s to 1921, first as a professional gambler betting on the bouts, and later as a promoter and referee. Ultimately, Bat stumbled into writing about the sport. In Gunfighter in Gotham, DeArment tells how Bat Masterson built a second career from a column in the New YorkMorning Telegraph. Bat’s articles not only covered sports but also reflected his outspoken opinions on war, crime, politics, and a changing society. As his renown as a boxing expert grew, his opinions were picked up by other newspaper editors and reprinted throughout the country and abroad. He counted President Theodore Roosevelt among his friends and readers. This follow-up to DeArment’s definitive biography of the Old West legend narrates the final chapter of Masterson’s storied life. Far removed from the sweeping western plains and dusty cowtown streets of his younger days, Bat Masterson, in New York City, became “a ham reporter,” as he called himself, “a Broadway guy.”
Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252090632
A groundbreaking history of African Americans in the early recording industry, Lost Sounds examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved. Drawing on more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black recording artists and profiles forty audio pioneers. Brooks assesses the careers and recordings of George W. Johnson, Bert Williams, George Walker, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, W. C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Booker T. Washington, and boxing champion Jack Johnson, plus a host of lesser-known voices. Many of these pioneers struggled to be heard in an era of rampant discrimination. Their stories detail the forces––black and white––that gradually allowed African Americans to enter the mainstream entertainment industry. Lost Sounds includes Brooks's selected discography of CD reissues and an appendix by Dick Spottswood describing early recordings by black artists in the Caribbean and South America.
Author : Bob Petersen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786485949
Born to former slaves on St. Croix in 1860, Peter Jackson made his name as a boxer with his smooth, fast style and a dangerous one-two combination. After immigrating to Australia, Jackson became that country's national heavyweight champion in 1886 before moving on to the United States and claiming the title of Colored Champion of the World in 1888. For the next ten years Peter Jackson remained undefeated, finally losing to the great Jim Jeffries in 1898. Although he never received a shot at the heavyweight title--reigning heavyweight champion John L. Sullivan refused to defend his title against a black man--Jackson remains one of the greatest heavyweights ever.