Jack Johnson, First African American to Win Heavyweight Title

O Denc 26, 1908: Jack Johnson became the 1st African American to win the world heavyweight boxing title. He KO’d Canadian Tommy Burns in the 14th round in a championship fight near Sydney, Australia. Whites hated Johnson, who held the heavyweight title until 1915, for his defiance of the "Jim Crow" racial segregation and oppression of early 20th-century America.

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