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📊 Series Specifications
Network PBS
Episode Runtime ~106 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 2
Original Language EN
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005)
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Ended Series Status:
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Synopsis
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win a title and his struggle to live as a free man.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (Miniseries)
2 Episodes E1 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.
E2 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.