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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Documentary
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win a title and his struggle to live as a free man.
Jan 17, 20051 seasons2 episodesEndedEN
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Episodes
1–2 of 2
Ep 1Part One
Jan 17, 2005
111m
Follow Jack Johnson's journey from Texas to professional boxing, where, in Jim Crow America, the heavyweight champion was a "white title." In 1908 he became the first African American to earn the title Heavyweight Champion of the World.
Ep 2Part Two
Jan 18, 2005
102m
When no one could beat Johnson in the ring, the government set out to destroy him in the courts, using his relationships with white women as the excuse to prosecute and send him to jail. Johnson fled to Europe where he remained a fugitive.
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