The fight of the century
Subtitle: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and the struggle for racial equality
By: Thomas R. Hietala.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Johnson, Jack, 1878-1946; Louis, Joe, 1914-; African American boxers -- Biography; Boxing -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: "Many Thousand Gone"; title: 1. "A Retribution Seeks": White Repression and Black Redemption; title: 2. "A Tempest of Dispraise": From Black Hope to Black Burden; title: 3. "Under the White Man's Menace": Divisive Wars at Home and Abroad; title: 4. "Outcasts Asylumed": Exile's Return and Legacy; title: 5. "Don't You Fall Now": A New Race Ambassador Emerges; title: 6. "No Other Dream, No Land But This": Black Americans and the Enemy Within; title: 7. "Another World Be Born": In Search of Victory at Home and Abroad; title: 8. "The Harder They Fall": A Champion's Life and Legend.