Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
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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United States: Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson is streaming on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel, Thirteen, and WETA+. It can also be rented or bought on Amazon Video.
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S1 E2 • 1/18/2005
Part Two
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.
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Samuel L. Jackson
Narrator (voice)
Keith David
Jack Johnson (voice)
Jack Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Stanley Crouch
Self - writer
James Earl Jones
Self - actor
Bert Sugar
Self - boxing historian
Gerald Early
Self - writer
José Torres
Self - Former Light Heavyweight Champion
Randy Roberts
Self - biographer
Jack Newfield
Self - journalist
W.C. Heinz
Self - sportswriter
George Plimpton
Self - writer
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