Jack London character is based on Hawaiian leper Kaluaikoolau, who in 1893 revolted and resisted capture from forces of the Provisional Government of Hawaii in the Kalalau Valley. An amateur boxer and avid boxing fan, London reported on the 1910 Johnson–Jeffries fight, in which the black boxer Jack Johnson vanquished Jim Jeffries, known as the "Great White Hope". In 1908, London had reported on an earlier fight of Johnson's, contrasting the black boxer's coolness and intellectual style, with the apelike appearance and fighting style of his Canadian opponent, Tommy Burns, 'what . . . [won] on Saturday was bigness, coolness, quickness, cleverness,
Hope Black in 1965 she married and became Hope Black, requiring her retirement from the Victorian public service as a result of the marriage bar. Subsequently Black worked for 13 years as a science teacher. Hope Black was initially employed in 1937 at Museum Victoria by the support of the Carnegie Corporation. She worked on developing and preparing new display cases for the McCoy Hall dioramas. In 1947 Black collaborated to survey the Snowy River Gorge on horseback, prior construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme. Between 1957-1963, Black carried out biological surveys of Port Phillip Bay, and her results are still