A Black man attaining White masculine prizes triggered intense White hatred.

Evidence

The most famous Black man in America quickly became the most hated Black man in America. By 1908, Johnson had won three of the four greatest prizes of patriarchal White masculinity—wealth, the heavyweight title, and the White woman. Taft winning the White House hardly could calm the fury of White men, especially when Jack Johnson went on to flaunt his White woman, his wealth, and his title. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 785

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier sources on moral panics — the Great White Hope panic follows the classic pattern of a status threat to the dominant group.