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They married on December 4, Cameron filed for divorce in due to his infidelity. Johnson met Irene Pineau at the race track in Aurora, Illinois in After she divorced her husband the following year, they were married in Waukegan in August Johnson and Pineau were together until his death in When asked by a reporter at Johnson's funeral what she had loved about him, she replied: "I loved him because of his courage. He faced the world unafraid. There wasn't anybody or anything he feared. On October 18, , Johnson was arrested on the grounds that his relationship with Lucille Cameron violated the Mann Act against "transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes" due to her being an alleged prostitute.

Her mother also swore that her daughter was insane.

Less than a month later, Johnson was arrested again on similar charges. This time, the woman, another alleged prostitute named Belle Schreiber, [71] with whom he had been involved in and , testified against him. In the courtroom of Kenesaw Mountain Landis , the future Commissioner of Baseball who perpetuated the baseball color line until his death, Johnson was convicted by an all-white jury in June , [72] despite the fact that the incidents used to convict him took place before passage of the Mann Act.

Johnson skipped bail and left the country, joining Lucille in Montreal on June 25, before fleeing to France. To flee to Canada, Johnson posed as a member of a black baseball team. For the next seven years, they lived in exile in Europe, South America and Mexico. Johnson returned to the U. He surrendered to federal agents at the Mexican border and was sent to the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth to serve his sentence in September There have been recurring proposals to grant Johnson a posthumous presidential pardon.

A bill requesting President George W. Bush to pardon Johnson in passed the House, [74] but failed to pass in the Senate. After various attempts from WBC former president, Jose Sulaiman, who reached out to different presidential administrations dating back to Ronald Reagan, President Donald Trump announced in April , that he was considering a full pardon of Johnson after speaking with a World Boxing Council committee, along with actor Sylvester Stallone.

A persistent hoax on social media claims Johnson invented the monkey wrench and it was named a monkey wrench as a racial slur. Johnson did receive a patent for improvements to the monkey wrench, but the first patent for a monkey wrench was awarded in the s, around 30 years before he was born.

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On June 10, , Johnson died in a car crash on U. Highway 1 near Franklinton , North Carolina after racing angrily from a diner that refused to serve him. He was 68 years old at the time of his death. He was buried next to his second wife, Etta Duryea Johnson who committed suicide in , at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.

His grave was initially unmarked, and then marked with a large stone that bore only the name "Johnson. Johnson's signature is on the back of the stone.

Johnson was an inaugural inductee to The Ring magazine's Boxing Hall of Fame disbanded in , and was inducted to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in During his boxing career, Jack Johnson fought fights, winning 80 matches, 45 by knockouts. In the short term, the boxing world reacted against Johnson's legacy. But Johnson foreshadowed one of the most famous boxers of all time, Muhammad Ali. In fact, Ali often spoke of how he was influenced by Jack Johnson. Ali identified with Johnson because he felt America ostracized him in the same manner because of his opposition to the Vietnam War and affiliation with the Nation of Islam.

In , the City of Galveston dedicated a park in Johnson's memory as Galveston Island's most famous native son. The park, called Jack Johnson Park, includes a life-size, bronze statue of Johnson.

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The first filmed fight of Johnson's career was his bout with Tommy Burns, which was turned into a contemporary documentary The Burns-Johnson Fight in Folksinger and blues singer Lead Belly referenced Johnson in a song about the Titanic : "Jack Johnson wanna get on board, Captain said I ain't hauling no coal. Fare thee, Titanic, fare thee well. When Jack Johnson heard that mighty shock, mighta seen the man do the Eagle rock.

Fare thee, Titanic, fare thee well " The Eagle Rock was a popular dance at the time. Both Jones and Alexander were nominated for Oscars. Retrieved from the sleeve. Also in , Jimmy Jacobs and Bill Cayton brought together much of the rare archive footage of Johnson which they had saved and restored, and made the film Jack Johnson , with Johnson's words voiced by Brock Peters , and music by Miles Davis.

Davis' score later became the album named after the boxer. It features the actor Peters as Johnson saying:. I'm Jack Johnson. Heavyweight champion of the world.

Thank you!

I'm black. They never let me forget it. I'm black all right!

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I'll never let them forget it! Ward, and with music by Wynton Marsalis. Jack Johnson's life was the subject of a three-part series of the podcast History on Fire by historian Daniele Bolelli. Several hip-hop activists have also reflected on Johnson's legacy, most notably in the album The New Danger , by Mos Def , in which songs like "Zimzallabim" and "Blue Black Jack" are devoted to the artist's pugilistic hero. Russell's piece is both a tribute and a biting indictment of the racism Johnson faced: "here comes Jack Johnson, like he owns the town, there's a lot of white Americans like to see a man go down We went through the place today 2 October where the Virgin Statue at the top of the Church was hit by a shell in January.

The statue was knocked over, but has never fallen, I sent you a picture of it.

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It really is a wonderful sight. It is incomprehensible how it can have stayed there, but I think it is now lower than when the photograph was taken, and no doubt will come down with the next gale. The Church and village are wrecked, there's a huge hole made by a Jack Johnson just outside the west door of the Church.

Jack Johnson was painted several times by Raymond Saunders. In Joe R. Lansdale 's short story The Big Blow , Johnson is featured fighting a white boxer brought in by Galveston, Texas's boxing fans to defeat the African American fighter during the Galveston Hurricane.

The story won a Bram Stoker Award and was expanded into a novel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For the band, see The New Danger. American boxer, became the first African-American world heavyweight champion.

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