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JACK JOHNSON AND HIS TIMES
by Denzil Batchelor
(Phoenix Press 1956)

BLACK CHAMPION: The life and times of Jack Johnson
by Finis Farr
(Macmillan Press NY 1964)

JACK JOHNSON: The Big Black Fire
by Robert H. DeCoy
(Holloway Press 1969)

BLACK GLADIATOR: A biography of Jack Johnson
by Bob Lucas
(New York 1970)

anyone seen these books ?
The first one was published just 10 years after his death.
It would be interesting to know
how many if any people the authors may have interviewed
who either knew Jack Johnson when he was still the HW Champion or alive.
(The book BLACK GLADIATOR published in 1970,
the author interviewed Fred L. Cook who was
Jack Johnson's relief driver when Johnson died in the car crash in 1946.)

Jack Johnson's autobiography IN THE RING AND OUT
was re-printed in the Fall of 1969 under the title
JACK JOHNSON IS A DANDY
in Harcover by Chelsea House Publishers (with 32 pages of B/W photographs)
and introductory essays by Dick Shaap and The Lampman.
It came out in a paperback edition published by Signet books in 1970.

Howard Sackler's play THE GREAT WHITE HOPE: A DRAMA IN THREE ACTS
was published in Hardcover by Dial Press in 1968.

The film documentry JACK JOHNSON
directed by Jim Jacobs and produced by Bill Cayton of BigFights Inc.
premired July.25.1970 in Detroit Michigan.
(soundtrack by Miles Davis)
The film was nominated for an Academy Award-Best Documentery in 1971.

The first Biography was
THE LIFE AND BATTLES OF JACK JOHNSON
by Richard K. Fox (the editor of The Police Gazette)
published in NY in 1910.