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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

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As Part Two begins, Jack Johnson was on top of the world, the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World; the most famous — and the most notorious — African-American on earth. But forces were gathering in America to try to stop him. When no one could be found to beat the champion in the ring, the U.S. government set out to destroy him in the courts

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Follow Jack Johnson's remarkable journey from his humble beginnings to entering the ring.
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