Carolina Quotes
The search for the "white hope" not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was champion, decided if they could not get me one way they would another.

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Source

As quoted in Introduction to "Knockout" at Unforgivable Blackness at PBS (2005)

year
2005

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“The search for the "white hope" not having been successful, …” Jack Johnson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-D714CB567C. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/d714cb567c

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