Did you know Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion in 1908 amid Jim Crow racism, defied white supremacy by marrying white women and flaunting his success? His 1913 Mann Act conviction for “immoral” interstate transport of a white fiancée was a sham to dethrone him, forcing seven years in exile before serving a year in Leavenworth prison. In a dramatic twist, Johnson died in a 1946 car crash at 68 after a diner refused him service, his life inspiring posthumous pardons and films like Ken Burns’ “Unforgivable Blackness,” proving his unbreakable spirit outlasted bigotry.
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Legendary !
He had every body hates him Jack Johnson said i best,it him up against the world 🌎.
The white Yanks couldn't beat him in the ring so they wanted to beat him the coward's way