One of the nation’s first celebrity athletes, Jack Johnson also provided a rough foreshadowing of the political theories of a 42-year-old educator from Great Barrington, Massachusetts ...

When African American Jack Johnson took the heavyweight title from the Irish boxer Tommy Burns ... and awaited the "Great White Hope" who would claim boxing honors for their own race.

recalled the disdain many Americans had harbored toward the great fighter: “They Hated Jack Johnson For He Feared No Human.” This article is a selection from the April/May 2023 issue of ...

The Great White Hope Is a Black Man’s Struggle in a Racist America Based on a play by Howard Sackler, which was loosely based on the real-life of boxer Jack Johnson, The Great White Hope ...

Jack Newfield, Randy Roberts, Gerald Early and James Earl Jones, who portrayed Johnson in the Broadway play and film based on Johnson's life, "The Great White Hope." Johnson in many ways is an ...