"The Outlook for Pugilism is Black": Representations of Prize fighter Jack Johnson in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
When challenger Jack Johnson took to the ring against heavyweight champion Tommy Burns, newspapers across the US quickly cast the bout as a battle between the races. Johnson, an African American, won the battle decisively and began his reign atop the world of prize fighting. This examination of cont...
| Publicado en: | American Journalism Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 426 - 456 |
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Fall2024
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