Jack Johnson is a Dandy
Author : Jack Johnson
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 1969
Category : African American boxers
ISBN :
Author : Jack Johnson
Publisher : New American Library of Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 1969
Category : African American boxers
ISBN :
Author : Jack Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Boxers (Sports)
ISBN :
Author : Thomas R. Hietala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 38,67 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 : 22,85 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 : 50,89 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252071485
A biography of Jack Dempsey, Heavyweight Champion of the World from 1919-1926.
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher :
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Archival resources
ISBN :
Author : Randy Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 1985-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0029269008
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.
Author : David C. King
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761431206
Celebrates the diversity of life through the exploration of cultures around the world.
Author : David K. Wiggins
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1997-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780815627340
African American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. Glory Bound brings together for the first time eleven essays that explore this complex topic. In his writings, well-known sports scholar David K. Wiggins recounts the struggle of black athletes to participate fully in sports while maintaining their own cultural identity and pride. Wiggins examines the seminal moments that defined and changed the black athlete's role in white America from the nineteenth century to the present: the personal crusade of Wendell Smith to promote black participation in organized baseball, the triumph of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics and the proposed boycott of the Games, and the response of America's black press and community. Glory Bound demonstrates how the civil rights movement changed the face of American athletics and society forever. With the genesis of the black power movement in sport, Wiggins notes a significant shift in black—and white—America's attention to the African American athlete.
Author : William Kuhn
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307744655
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir, but she told her life story and revealed herself in intimate ways through the nearly 100 books she brought into print as an editor at Viking and Doubleday during the last two decades of her life. Many Americans regarded Jackie as the paragon of grace, but few knew her as the woman sitting on her office floor laying out illustrations, or flying to California to persuade Michael Jackson to write his autobiography. William Kuhn provides a behind-the-scenes look at Jackie at work: commissioning books and nurturing authors, helping to shape stories that spoke to her. Based on archives and interviews with her authors, colleagues, and friends, Reading Jackie reveals the serious and the mischievous woman underneath the glamorous public image.