Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005)
- Directed by
- Ken Burns
- Genre
- documentary film, boxing film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 3h 40m
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 28 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
This documentary tells the story of Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight boxing champion. It shows his rise to fame and the racism he faced during the Jim Crow era.
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What happens
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson is a 2005 biographical documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns, based on the 2004 nonfiction book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward. It describes the life story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World. It also describes racism and social inequality during the Jim Crow era, against which Johnson struggled. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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