“They say I’m controversial and they say I’m bold, but I wasn’t nothing like Jack Johnson. They had lynchings and rapings and burnings and every time he’d fight they’d lynch Negroes and burn houses. This man was told if you beat this white man we’re going to shoot you from the audience. He said well just shoot my black so-and-so because I’m a knock him out.”~Muhammad Ali
Original Fight of the Century: Jeffries vs. Johnson Source: joe56984
To view the PBS documentary Unforgivable Blackness directed by Ken Burns, please click here. Settle in with popcorn and a drink for this 3+ hour documentary detailing Jack Johnson’s journey to show the world a Black man is a man.