The Great White Hope is a powerful biopic that brings to life the struggles of Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight ...
Despite the lack of prize money, Johnson's victory in the ring had impressed Jack Curley, the young assistant to boxing promoter P.J. "Paddy" Carroll. Curley and Carroll arranged for Johnson to ...
Jack Johnson marries Lucille Cameron in 1912 ... but his status as a fugitive made him much less marketable as a boxer, and the outbreak of World War I the following year collapsed the European ...
Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a New York newspaper ... against Brad Simmons led to his being banned from boxing in Kansas. If Johnson lived in the fast lane, he died there literally ...
Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a New York newspaper ... against Brad Simmons led to his being banned from boxing in Kansas. If Johnson lived in the fast lane, he died there literally ...