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Black History Month: Celebrating Black Fighters

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Jack Johnson

John Arthur “Jack” Johnson, nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer, who—at the height of the Jim Crow era—became the first African American world Heavyweight boxing champion.

For more on Johnson, check out the Ken Burns documentary, “Unforgivable Blackness.“

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