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Boxing and race: When Jack Johnson beat the ‘Great White Hope,’ the aftermath wasn’t pretty
Boxing and race: When Jack Johnson beat the ‘Great White Hope,’ the aftermath wasn’t pretty
No white boxer could defeat Johnson in the ring, so white America worked to defeat him outside the ring. Yesterday · 01:14 pm
An audacious Black heavyweight champion was slated to defend his title against a white boxer in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910. It was billed as “the fight of the century.”
The fight was seen as a referendum on racial superiority – and all hell was about to break loose in the racially divided United States.
When a Black boxing champion beat the Great White Hope, all hell broke loose
Black heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, right, beat James Jeffries in 1910, sparking racial violence. George Haley, San Francisco Call, via University of California, Riverside, via Library of Congress
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An audacious Black heavyweight champion was slated to defend his title against a white boxer in Reno, Nevada, on July 4, 1910. It was billed as “the fight of the century.”
The fight was seen as a referendum on racial superiority – and all hell was about to break loose in the racially divided United States.
Jack Johnson, the Black man, decisively beat James Jeffries, nicknamed “the Great White Hope.” Johnson’s triumph ignited bloody confrontations and violence between Blacks and whites throughout the country, leaving perhaps two dozen dead, almost all of them Black, and hundreds injured and arrested.
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