Sentence examples for black champion from inspiring English sources

He meant the only mentor, or visionary, to help create a black champion in a sport with forbidding odds.

Ken Blackwell, social conservatism's most prominent black champion, went down to a humiliating defeat in the race for the Ohio governorship.

Hamilton, who is twenty-eight, is often thought of as Formula One's first black champion, and he was already the second-highest-paid driver on the circuit.

It took 20 years for blacks to overcome the legacy of Jack Johnson, the black champion whose swagger had so scandalized white America.

The fight not only marked the historic ascent of a black champion, it introduced a new kind of black athlete: confident and unafraid.

American women won every Wimbledon and U.S. singles title from 1946 through 1958, the string of champions including Pauline Betz, Louise Brough, Margaret Osborne DuPont, Doris Hart, Maureen Connolly, Shirley Fry, and Althea Gibson, the first black champion.

It is revealing that most of the party's few black MPs, including David Lammy, a contender for Mr Johnson's job, rose as able professionals, not black champions.

Davis was convinced from the outset that Venus and Serena would make history in a sport long resistant to black champions.

Since Joe Louis became the heavyweight boxing champion in the 1930s, African Americans have been among the world's top heavyweight fighters, though the tradition of black champions dates back to Jack Johnson, whose prowess and prominence in the first decades of the 20th century prompted the search for a "Great White Hope" to challenge him.

Seeking new sources of inspiration, he sends for a bewildered Fetchit and implores him to reveal the secrets of the great black boxing champion Jack Johnson, Fetchit's friend many years before.

Here, Johnson has become Jay "The Sport" Jackson, 6ft tall and weighing 202 pounds – already the black heavyweight champion of the world, but desperate to become heavyweight champion, period.