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Great White Hope

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Great White Hope
1910 personification of white peoples’ aspirations for a white heavyweight champion. [Am. Hist.: Misc.]
See : Pugilism


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So on July 4, 1910, Jack Johnson was now the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World, and immediately the search for a new Great White Hope began.
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