[DOC] [TLE] The Great White Hope (film) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Great White Hope is a 1970 biographical romantic drama film written and 
adapted from the Howard Sackler play of the same name. The film was directed 
by Martin Ritt, starring James Earl Jones, Jane ... Set between 1910 and 1915, 
the story follows Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones; patterned after real-life boxer 
Jack... [DOC] [TLE] Unforgivable Blackness . Ghost in the House | PBS [PAR] Jan 6, 2005 ... The play told the tale of a black boxer, Jack Jefferson, who is forced to leave the 
... Jack Jefferson's story is a thinly-veiled, idealized version of Jack Johnson's. 
The play's star, James Earl Jones, played Jefferson as Johnson saw himself, ... In 
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The scenario is about the black boxer Jack Jefferson (Jones), whose real-life 
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Jack

Question: In 1970 James Earl Jones played Jack Jefferson, a thinly veiled version of this real boxer
Answer: Jack Johnson