{"id":1790,"date":"2016-03-26T22:51:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T02:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/?page_id=1790"},"modified":"2016-07-15T09:18:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T13:18:59","slug":"jack-johnson","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/project\/jack-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Brother Jack Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"st\">March 31st 1878 \u2013 June 10th 1946<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Initiated in:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"tablelist\">Lodge Forfar and Kincardine No. 225<\/span> Dundee, Scotland<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nicknamed the Galveston Giant was an American boxer, who\u2014at the height of the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Jim Crow era\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Crow_era\">Jim Crow era<\/a>\u2014became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908\u20131915)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oUqhJzgSj4M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brother Johnson was inducted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibhof.com\/\">Boxing Hall of Fame<\/a> in 1954<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m Jack Johnson. Heavyweight champion of the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m black. They never let me forget it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m black all right! 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