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Maybe I'm just not white." By the 1960s there still had not ... Many likened her accomplishment to that of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in baseball. Controversy followed Williams ...

In 1908, when Jack Johnson fought Tommy Burns to become the first African American heavyweight champion of the world, a search began for a "Great White Hope ... through the color lines in ...