article_snippet.sent: Racism was rife in America: black people were not supposed to rule over whites in any sphere of life.
article_snippet.sent: As the great boxing pundit Bert Sugar put it, 'This was the white man's crown.
article_snippet.sent: (To white America), it was as if the white man's slave had become the white man master.'
article_snippet.sent: Attention immediately turned to finding another 'white hope'.
article_snippet.sent: As many as 26 black people would be killed by lynch mobs.
article_snippet.sent: It was the victory that white America had been waiting for but was all as it seemed?