Boxing’s Historic Battles, featuring the Inimitable Jack Johnson_Video Education and BLACK CHAMPION_The Life and Times of Jack Johnson, By Fanis Farr (eBook), with Supplemental

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John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the “Galveston Giant”, was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the “fight of the century”. Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, “for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth”. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history. Transcending boxing, he became part of the culture and history of racism in the United States…wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)

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SUPPLEMENTAL: Jack Johnson as Bad Nigger:The Folklore of His Life, William H. Wiggins, Jr. IN: Contemporary Black Thought_The Best from The Black Scholar (Page 53-70).

CHM. Omali Yeshitela_ If Jesus Was A Revolutionary, How Can Your Preacher Be Such An Uncle Tom, with A Haitian Revolution Introduction and Reading…more

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The Haitian Revolution

HAP 37 – Liberty, Equality, Humanity – The Haitian Revolution

Additional reading: “Revolution came to the French slaveholding colony of Saint Domingue in 1791. When the upheaval finally ran its course more than a decade later, in 1804, the landscape had been completely remade. In one fell swoop, the Haitian Revolution banished slavery, colonialism, and white supremacy, the three foundational institutions of the post-Columbian dispensation in the Americas.” From Haiti, I’m Sorry: The Haitian Revolution and the Forging of the Black International (Pg. 72), Michael O. West & William G. Martin, IN From Toussaint to Tupac_Black International since the Age of Revolution

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David Walker’s Appeal (1830) – Full Reading and eBook

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David Walker’s Appeal, arguably the most radical of all anti-slavery documents, caused a great stir when it was published in September of 1829 with its call for slaves to revolt against their masters. David Walker, a free black originally from the South wrote, “. . .they want us for their slaves, and think nothing of murdering us. . . therefore, if there is an attempt made by us, kill or be killed. . . and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.” Even the outspoken William Lloyd Garrison objected to Walker’s approach in an editorial about the Appeal.

The goal of the Appeal was to instill pride in its black readers and give hope that change would someday come. It spoke out against colonization, a popular movement that sought to move free blacks to a colony in Africa. America, Walker believed, belonged to all who helped build it. He went even further, stating, “America is more our country than it is the whites — we have enriched it with our blood and tears.” He then asked, “will they drive us from our property and homes, which we have earned with our blood.