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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Clip: Season 1 | 4m 1s | Video has closed captioning.
Jack Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion in the height of the Jim Crow era — a time in which slavery was abolished, but African Americans were not yet truly free.
Aired: 05/01/17
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
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July 4, 1910, the retired white Heavyweight Champion of the World, Jim Jeffries, tried to take the title back from the African-American current champion, Jack Johnson.
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