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Jack Johnson not only became the first Black American heavyweight championship boxer but who also lived (and loved) in Chicago and opened the wildly popular Café de Champion before tragedy and the government forced its closure.

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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward
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Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes by Randy Roberts
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Black Man vs. The World: Jack Johnson's Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs by Adam J. Pollack
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Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life by Davrian Baldwin
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What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America by Peggy Pascoe
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My Life In The Ring and Out by Jack Johnson
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