Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Geoffrey C. Ward

546 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction biography history sports informative reflective fast-paced
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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 figur...

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