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The Great Black Hope
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Louis Moore
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-09-24 - Publisher: PublicAffairs

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The story of two pioneering Black quarterbacks--one who became the first to win a Super Bowl, and one who couldn't make it in the racist world of the NFL—and
The Great Black Hope
Language: en
Pages: 76
Authors: Constance Gorman
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10 - Publisher: Constance Kluesener Gorman

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Tony is an African-American high school student and a stand-out high school football player on track to participate in college football and, possibly, the NFL.
Joe Louis
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Richard Bak
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-08-22 - Publisher: Da Capo Press

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When Joe Louis (1914–1981) knocked out the German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938 in two minutes and four seconds, the entire nation—black and white—celebrate
The Great Black Hope
Language: en
Pages: 132
Authors: Frank R Long
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-08 - Publisher: Lulu.com

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How (pre-Lennox Lewis) Britain got itself a heavyweight boxing champion from nowhere. Single Set Comedy Play, 3W 4M
The Great White Hope
Language: en
Pages: 140
Authors: Howard Sackler
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1968 - Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

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"[The dramatist] has used his hero, a fighter based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson ... as a symbol in part of Black aspirati