Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Season 1, Episode 2: Part Two

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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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