Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2005
1 season
2 episodes
Documentary

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win a title and his struggle to live as a free man.

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  • Part One

    1.Part One

    17-01-2005111m

    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 Ameri...

  • Part Two

    2.Part Two

    18-01-2005102m

    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...

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