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Jack Johnson and The Great "Race" Race

Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
From: Richard Stull
Length: 00:02:43

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America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-WWI America. Read the full description.

Web_promo-cover_small America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing
champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ
Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-WWI America.

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Piece Description

America’s first African-American heavyweight boxing
champion Jack Johnson challenges auto-racing champ
Barney Oldfield... on the racetrack in pre-WWI America.

Broadcast History

Show ran on ESPN Sports Radio 1340 AM, Eureka, CA in 2011 and 2012