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Photograph by Julian Robinson / Los Angeles Times Jack Johnson and his wife, Irene, after winning a legal battle to avoid being evicted from their home at 2015 Hyperion Ave. because he was black, March 31, 1943.
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July 8, 1910: “Five thousand members of his race and a big sprinkling of white persons made a living wall at the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Station when Johnson arrived at 2 p.m.,” The Times says. On the jump, a fire chief foils a plot to set off 50 pounds of dynamite at the International Harvester Co. in Chicago. The explosives were placed under a car carrying iron made by nonunion workers in Philadelphia, The Times says. |
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