Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century (ePub)
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A groundbreaking graphic portrait of boxing legend Jack Johnson, Last On His Feet offers a front-row seat to the Battle of the Century.
On the morning of July 4, 1910, thousands of boxing fans stormed a newly built stadium in Reno, Nevada, to witness an epic showdown. Jack Johnson, the world's first Black heavyweight championand most infamous athlete in the world because of his racewas paired against Jim Jeffries, a former heavyweight champion then heralded as the great white hope. It was the height of the Jim Crow era, and spectators were eager for Jeffries to restore the racial hierarchy that Johnson had pummeled with his quick fists.
Transporting readers directly into the ring, artist Youssef Daoudi and poet Adrian Matejka intersperse dramatic boxing action with vivid flashbacks to reveal how Johnson, the self-educated son of formerly enslaved parents, reached the pinnacle of sportall while facing down a racist justice system. Through a combination of breathtaking illustrations and striking verse, Last on His Feet honors a contentious civil rights figure who has for more than a century been denied his proper due.
- Autoren: Youssef Daoudi , Adrian Matejka
- 2023, 336 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Liveright
- ISBN-10: 1631495593
- ISBN-13: 9781631495595
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.02.2023
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- Dateiformat: ePub
- Grösse: 145 MB
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