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Trump Pardons Boxing champ Jack Johnson after plea from Sylvester Stallone

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In a historic moment at the White House, President Donald Trump granted a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, following personal intervention from Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone. Johnson, who claimed the heavyweight title in 1908, was convicted by an all-white jury in 1913 for accompanying his white girlfriend across state lines for “immoral purposes” during the Jim Crow era in the United Stat…
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Trump Pardons Boxing champ Jack Johnson after plea from Sylvester Stallone

In a historic moment at the White House, President Donald Trump granted a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, following personal intervention from Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone. Johnson, who claimed the heavyweight title in 1908, was convicted by an all-white jury in 1913 for accompanying his white girlfriend across state lines for “immoral purposes” during the Jim Crow era in the United Stat…

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Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century

Held in Jim Crow–era Nevada on the 4th of July, the 1910 World Heavyweight Championship was slated to be a fight to remember. Moonlighting as a boxing journalist, novelist Jack London cheered on Jim Jeffries — ringside and on the page — as the “Great White Hope", a contender to take back the title from Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion. Andrew Rihn examines the contradictions of London’s racial rhetoric, which is more complex and

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