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For Team Obama, A Refresher on Jack Johnson and "The Great White Hope"

Dave Zirin, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. September 1, 2009.
In 1918, the first black heavyweight boxing champ defeated a racist "great white hope." Why won't Obama fight back?

The Mann Act: From Jack Johnson to Eliot Spitzer

Omar Wasow, The Root. March 20, 2008.
The troubling history of the White-Slave Traffic Act.

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