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Jan 17, 2005 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson: Directed by Ken Burns. With Jack Johnson, Keith David, Samuel L. Jackson, Adam Arkin. The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight boxing champion.
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- Documentary, Biography, Sport
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- 2005-01-17
Now Streaming. Watch Unforgivable Blackness | Full Episodes. Part 1. Follow Jack Johnson's remarkable journey from his humble beginnings in Galveston, Texas, as the son of former slaves,...
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson is a 2005 biographical documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns, based on the 2004 nonfiction book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward. It describes the life story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World.
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The greatest heavyweight boxer in American history...Jack Johnson. Confident, smiling and proud, Jack Johnson rose from oblivion to fight his way to the top of the boxing profession in...
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Jan 3, 2006 · Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Paperback – Illustrated, January 3, 2006. In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age.
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- Geoffrey C. Ward
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- Vintage
“Any serious study of American history inevitably engages the question of race and the monumental hypocrisy born at our founding; the existence of slavery in a country that had just proclaimed to the world that “all men are created equal. . .” In the story of Jack Johnson, these questions come to a profound crux.
