Venise T Berry: 3 books
by S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded-and thousands of fans witnessed-former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man. After 14 grueling rounds, Johnson knocked out Jeffries...
by Venise T. Berry, S. Torriano Berry
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2007
On 4 July, 1910, in 100-degree heat at an outdoor boxing ring near Reno, Nevada, film cameras recorded_and thousands of fans witnessed_former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries' reluctant return from retirement to fight Jack Johnson, a black man. After 14 grueling rounds, Johnson knocked out Jeffries...
by S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
As early as 1909, African Americans were utilizing the new medium of cinema to catalogue the world around them, using the film camera as a device to capture their lives and their history. The daunting subject of race and ethnicity permeated life in America at the turn of the twentieth century and...