Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson – Miniseries
2005
2 Episodes
Episodes
S01E01
Part One
Follow Jack Johnson's journey from Texas to professional boxing, where, in Jim Crow America, the heavyweight champion was a "white title." In 1908 he became the first African American to earn the title Heavyweight Champion of the World.
17 Jan 2005111m
S01E02
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.
18 Jan 2005102m