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  100 Years Later: Race and "The Fight of the Century"

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  Roopika Risam Emory University

  July 05, 2010

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  York Times worried, "If the black man wins … his brothers will misrepresent his win to much more ... recounts a July 5, 1910 article on Johnson's win from the Los Angeles Times: "A word to the black ... Reno." Despite media efforts to downplay the significance of Johnson’s win, violence erupted around the ...