Ok almost every year I post something about Mr.Jack Johnson! He’s one of my favs and has also become one of Sai’s as well. This is something I learned today on a Black History Tour!
Jack Johnson’s was wanted for transporting a white women(his lover)from one state to another. In 1912, Johnson was arrested for violating the Mann Act, an anti-prostitution law. An all-white jury found that when Johnson traveled with his 19-year-old white girlfriend, he was transporting a woman across state lines for an immoral purpose.
He was actually apprehended right here in Kansas City due to the White Slave Law. The reason he went a while without being arrested is because he refused to be handcuffed. When he was taken in,they found a pair of dice and $450 on his person. He served time in the pen in Leavenworth KS, there he revamped the wrench.
The thought of a so called black heavyweight champion with a fondness for white women terrified Hollywood. Did you know the movie King Kong was supposedly inspired by Johnson's lust and love for white women?
Johnson died in 1946, after angrily speeding away from a diner in North Carolina that either refused to serve black people or tried to force him to sit outside. His car struck a light pole, and he was sent to the nearest hospital that would treat black patients, more than 25 miles away from the site of his accident.
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