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Jack Johnson Park -- Galveston Jack Johnson Bronze Statue in Jack Johnson Park -- Galveston. Johnson was an inaugural 1954 inductee to The Ring magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame (disbanded in 1987), and was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
Set between 1910 and 1915, the story follows Jack Jefferson, patterned after real-life boxer Jack Johnson, going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and others who want to see white people win at sports, announce the search for a "great white hope", a white boxer who will defeat ...
The great white hope" is a reference to the white boxer who many white people hoped would finally defeat Johnson. William Warren Barbour , who won the American and Canadian amateur heavyweight championship in 1910 and 1911, respectively, was "Gentleman Jim" Corbett 's choice to be "the great white hope," but Barbour declined to take up the mantle.
3. Jack Jefferson in ‘The Great White Hope’ (1970) In “The Great White Hope,” Jones played a Black boxer facing off against all manner of racist hostility during the 1910s.
He would star in the 1970 big-screen adaptation, earning him his only Oscar nomination, playing Jack Jefferson, a character based on boxer Jack Johnson. Jones’ character is outspoken and has to ...
He first starred as boxer Jack Jefferson in "The Great White Hope" in 1967, and after its move to Broadway the following year, Jones won his first Tony Award in 1969 for Best Actor. He later ...
In December 1967, Jones starred alongside Jane Alexander in Howard Sackler's play, The Great White Hope, at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. Jones took the role of the talented but troubled boxer "Jack Jefferson", who is based on the real champion Jack Johnson. The play was a huge success when it moved to Broadway on October 3, 1968.
His performance of boxer Jack Jefferson earned him his first Academy Award nomination in 1970. The 1970s was a triumphant decade for Jones, who first gave voice to Darth Vader in 1977.