Jack Johnson (petinju)

John Arthur "Jack" Johnson (), berjuluk Galveston Giant adalah seorang petinju Amerika, yang—pada puncak era Jim Crow—menjadi juara tinju kelas berat dunia Afrika Amerika pertama (1908–1915). Johnson menjadi salah satu juara paling dominan pada masanya, dan masih menjadi figur sejarah signifikan dalam sejarah tinju kelas berat, dengan pertarungan tahun 1910-nya melawan James J. Jeffries yang dijuluki "pertarungan abad ini."John L. Sullivan, cited in: Christopher James Shelton, Historian for The Boxing Amusement Park, "'Fight of the Century' Johnson vs. Jeffries, the 100th anniversary"  Johnson menghadapi kontroversi saat ia didakwa melanggar Mann Act pada 1912, meskipun buktinya kurang dan dakwaan tersebut sebagian besar berdasarkan pada rasial. Dalam sebuah dokumenter tentang kehidupannya, Ken Burns menyatakan bahwa "selama lebih dari tiga belas tahun, Jack Johnson merupakan Afrika-Amerika paling menonjol dan paling terkenal di Bumi".Ken Burns, Unforgivable Blackness

 Referensi 

87. Papa Jack, Jack Johnson and the Era of the White Hopes, Randy Roberts, Macmillan, 1983, Chapter 8.

 Bacaan tambahan 
 Ocania Chalk, Pioneers of Black Sport. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975.
 Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West, The African-American Century: How Black Americans have shaped our Country. New York: The Free Press, 2000.
 Theresa Runstedtler, Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012.

 Pranala luar 


 Sporting Mavericks Hall of Fame
 Jack Johnson at Flickr Commons
 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, a 2 part film by Ken Burns and PBS 2005.
 Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson , A Review on Ken Burns' Documentary.
 Extended biography of Jack Johnson 
 "The Johnson-Jeffries Fight and Censorship of Black Supremacy", by Barak Orbach.
 Famous Texans - Jack Johnson
 John (Jack) Arthur Johnson
 Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Jack Johnson 
 ESPN.com: Jack Johnson
 Cyber Boxing Zone - Jack Johnson
 Interview with Jack Johnson biographer Geoffery C. Ward 
 CBS News - A Pardon for Jack Johnson
 http://www.johnsonjeffries2010.com/index.php 

 Jack Johnson and wife Lucille Cameron
 "Jeffries is Defeated; Dragged Out Bleeding". Daily Press, July 5, 1910. United States Library of Congress.
 BFI, Jack Johnson Paying a Visit to Manchester Docks, 1911 

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