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.
Episodes
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...
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 excus...
Cast
Samuel L. Jackson
Narrator (voice)
Keith David
Jack Johnson (voice)
Jack Johnson
Self (archive footag...
Stanley Crouch
Self - writer
James Earl Jones
Self - actor
Bert Sugar
Self - boxing histor...
Gerald Early
Self - writer
José Torres
Self - Former Light...
Randy Roberts
Self - biographer
Jack Newfield
Self - journalist
W.C. Heinz
Self - sportswriter
George Plimpton
Self - writer
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