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

    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    2005 · Documentary · 3h 34m

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  2. www.pbs.org › kenburns › unforgivable-blacknessUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson ...

    Follow Jack Johnson's remarkable journey from his humble beginnings in Galveston, Texas, as the son of former slaves, to his entry into the brutal world of professional...

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  4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0413615Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson - IMDb

    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
    • Ken Burns
    • 2005-01-17

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  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Unforgivable_Blackness:Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    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.

  7. www.pbs.org › kenburns › unforgivable-blacknessAbout the Film | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of ...

    Jack Johnson — the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World, whose dominance over his white opponents spurred furious debates and race riots in the early 20th century — enters...

  8. www.amazon.com › Unforgivable-Blackness-Rise-FallUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    Jan 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. Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in the Jim Crow South to win the title of heavyweight champion of the world.

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    • Geoffrey C. Ward
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  9. www.pbs.org › show › unforgivable-blackness-rise-andUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson - PBS

    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. Explore the fight.

  10. kenburns.com › films › unforgivable-blacknessUnforgivable Blackness - Ken Burns

    Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson tells the story of the first African-American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports and his struggle, in and out of the ring, to live his life as a free man.

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