The Fight of the Century: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and the Struggle for Racial EqualityM.E. Sharpe, 2002 - 375 страница This book examines the history of race relations in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century through the lives and times of two leading African-American sports figures, the boxers Jack Johnson and Joe Louis. The author explores how the public careers and private lives of the first two African American heavyweight boxing champions both define and explain vital issues in U.S. history. He incorporates extensive research into the black press of the time. And he organizes the major events - the John Jeffries "fight of the century" in 1910, the Mann Act trial, Louis's two bouts with Max Schmeling in the 1930s, Louis's enlistment in the Army in 1942 - around the principle themes of the book: the persistence of prejudice and segregation from the early 1900s to the late 1940s; the two boxers' symbolic significance to black Americans; and the hopes that their success in the ring inspired. |
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Many Thousand Gone | 5 |
A Retribution Seeks White Repression and Black Redemption | 15 |
A Tempest of Dispraise From Black Hope to Black Burden | 50 |
Under the White Mans Menace Divisive Wars at Home and Abroad | 89 |
Outcasts Asylumed Exiles Return and Legacy | 131 |
Dont You Fall Now A New Race Ambassador Emerges | 150 |
No Other Dream No Land But This Black Americans and the Enemy Within | 193 |
Another World Be Born In Search of Victory at Home and Abroad | 245 |
The Harder They Fall A Champions Life and Legend | 297 |
Epilogue | 325 |
Notes | 333 |
Index | 365 |
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