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Bookmark or Share- The Legacy of ‘The Great White Hope’ - Smithsonian MagazineIn The Great White Hope, black boxer Jack Jefferson—a name change borne out of legal concerns—becomes so successful that a fight is set up between Jefferson and the reigning heavyweight...
- The Great White Hope (film) - WikipediaThe Great White Hope is a 1970 American biographical romantic drama film written and adapted from the 1967 Howard Sackler play of the same name. [3] [4] [5] The film was directed by Martin Ritt, starring James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Beah Richards and Moses Gunn.
- The Great White Hope - Rotten TomatoesJack Jefferson (James Earl Jones) is the boxing heavyweight champion of early 1910s America. But as a black man, he's not only fighting other boxers, but discrimination and...
- The Great White Hope | African-American History, Boxing Drama ...Written in three acts, The Great White Hope covers the years from 1908 to 1915 and centres on fictional heavyweight boxing champion Jack Jefferson. Jefferson is a proud, outspoken African American and is romantically involved with a white woman, Eleanor Bachman.
- The Great White Hope - Encyclopedia.comThe Great White Hope is a story of contrasts, of black versus white, or the dark versus the light. Two of Sackler’s white characters, Cap’n Dan and Mrs. Bachman, use these contrasts in their own dramatic monologues to express their feelings about Jack Jefferson.
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