The Great White Hope

Howard Sackler(Samuel French)

The Great White Hope

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Synopsis

Tragic Drama / Characters: 8 male, 3 female, extras w/doublingWinner of Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award!"A great part a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten.

Mr. Sackler has used his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson (played by James Earl Jones), as a symbol in part of Black aspiration...Has an epic scope and range...It picks up the Johnson story soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy B

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