Jack Johnson #1036

Caption from poster__     " Unforgivable Blackness: "   The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson     . A word to the black man   Do not point your nose too high   Do not swell your chest too much   Do not boast too loudly   Do not be puffed up   Let not your ambition be inordinate   Or take a wrong direction   Remember you have done nothing at all   You are just the same member of    society you were last week   You are on no higher plane   Deserve no new consideration   And will get none   No man will think a bit higher of you   Because your complexion is the same   Of that of the victor at Reno     --Los Angeles times July 5, 1910     Arthur John (Jack) Johnson (1878 -1946) was the first black, and first  Texan, to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Born in Galveston on March 31, 1878, he was the second of six children of Henry and Tiny Johnson. Henry was a former slave and his family was poor. After leaving school in the fifth grade, Johnson worked odd jobs  aro