The Jim Crow Era

Season 1

Johnson became the world heavyweight boxing champion in the height of the Jim Crow era.

Jack Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion in the height of the Jim Crow era — a time in which slavery was abolished, but African Americans were not yet truly free.

AIR DATE 5/1/17

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About Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

“Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson,” directed by Ken Burns, tells the story of the first African- American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports Heavyweight Champion of the World — and his struggle, in and out of the ring, to live life as a free man.

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