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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson is a 2005 biographical documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns, based on the 2004 nonfiction book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward. It describes the life story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World.
In 2005, filmmaker Ken Burns produced a two-part documentary about Johnson's life, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, based on the 2004 nonfiction book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward, and with music by Wynton Marsalis. The book won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year (2006). [99] [100]
More recently, the documentary "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," directed by Ken Burns, was aired on PBS in 2004. Show comments Advertisement
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson “Holy shit, Jack Johnson is a badass!” That was my reaction after watching Unforgivable Blackness earlier this summer.
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) Picture Muhammad Ali at the turn of the 20th century, a Black man who slept with white women and lived like a rock star.
His script for the documentary Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, won the Writers Guild of America Award in 2005, [5] and the accompanying book won the 2006 William Hill Sports Book of the Year [6] [7] and the Anisfield-Wolf Award for best biography. [8]
Jack Johnson is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Jimmy Jacobs about the American boxer ... Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson;