The Big Black Fire

Résumé du livre

"Jack Johnson was a black militant 50 years before his time - and it was Jack London who started the call for "The Great White Hope" - a white boxer who could defeat him and "uphold the honor of the white people." The life of Jack Johnson - the first Negro Heavyweight Champion of the World - is the story of Civil Rights in the first half of the twentieth century. Single-handedly he stood up against the KKK, the establishment and the U.S. Government. He was the man whom William Jennings Bryan called "a nigger"; Winston Churchill said he was not welcome in England - and Booker T. Washington condemned him for "rocking the boat." But Johnson became a friend of Rasputin and of Carranza (the President of Mexico who set up the libertarian constitution by which the country is governed today). Because he refused to be an Uncle Tom, many vicious lies have been circulated about him and his life - especially about his many lusty affairs with white women. Robert H. deCoy, author of the controversial best-seller The Nigger Bible, knew Jack Johnson well, and for the first time, he cuts through the lies and calumnies. The Big Black Fire is the life of Jack Johnson as it really happened - containing material never before in print" --