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Papa Jack: Jack Johnson And The Era Of White Hopes by Randy Roberts

Papa Jack: Jack Johnson And The Era Of White Hopes

Randy Roberts
304 pages
Free Press
Mar 1985
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The startling true story of the most famous - and most hated - black American of his day. Papa Jack takes us into a violent and sordid world.. From Randy Roberts, Papa Jack is an astonishing tale of black defiance - and white retribution - set against the dramatic canvas of sports and spectacle in Southern Jim Crow America.
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