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Jack Arthur Johnson est un boxeur américain né le 31 mars 1878 à Galveston, Texas, et mort le 10 juin 1946 à Raleigh, Caroline du Nord. Surnommé « le géant de Galveston », il fut le premier champion du monde poids lourds noir entre 1908 et 1915.

En 1920, il ouvre le Club de Luxe à Harlem, qui deviendra le Cotton Club. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. mars 1878 – 10. juin 1946
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Jack Johnson: Citations en anglais

“The search for the "white hope" not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was champion, decided if they could not get me one way they would another.”

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As quoted in Introduction to "Knockout" at Unforgivable Blackness at PBS (2005) http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/knockout/

“There have been countless women in my life. They have participated in my triumphs and suffered with me in my moments of disappointment. They have inspired me to attainment and they have balked me; they have caused me joy and they have heaped misery upon me; they have been faithful to the utmost and they have been faithless; they have praised and loved me and they have hated and denounced me. Always, a woman has swayed me — sometimes many have demanded my attention at the same moment.”

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Jack Johnson (boxer)

On women, as quoted in "Jack's Women" at Unforgivable Blackness at PBS (2005) http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/knockout/women.html

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