Unforgivable Blackness The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Name: Unforgivable Blackness The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
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ISBN: 9780375710049

ISBN-10: 0375710043

ISBN-13: 9780375710049

Edition: N/A

Authors: Geoffrey C. Ward

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He was the first black heavyweight champion in history, the most celebrated–and most reviled–African American of his age. In Unforgivable Blackness, the prizewinning biographer Geoffrey C. Ward brings to vivid life the real Jack Johnson, a figure far more complex and compelling than the newspaper headlines he inspired could ever convey. Johnson battled his way from obscurity to the top of the heavyweight ranks and in 1908 won the greatest prize in American sports–one that had always been the private preserve of white boxers. 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 just to survive,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/3/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Geoffrey C. Ward won the national Book Critics Circle Award in 1989. He is the author of Unforgiveable Blackness and, with Ken Burns, he is co-author of The Civil War and Jazz.