Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Miniseries
2005tvEnded1 Season · 2 Ep
Documentary
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Network: PBS
Season aired: 2005-01-17
Overview
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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Episodes · 2
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Part One
1h 51m2005-01-17
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.
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Part Two
1h 42m2005-01-18
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.
