Series
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
United States- Creator
- Ken Burns
- Year
- 2005
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win a title and his struggle to live as a free man.
Episodes
Top cast
Samuel L. Jackson
Narrator (voice)
Keith David
Jack Johnson (voice)
Jack Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Stanley Crouch
Self - writer
James Earl Jones
Self - actor
Bert Sugar
Self - boxing historian
Gerald Early
Self - writer
José Torres
Self - Former Light Heavyweight Champion
Randy Roberts
Self - biographer
Jack Newfield
Self - journalist
W.C. Heinz
Self - sportswriter
George Plimpton
Self - writer
Created by
Ken Burns
Directed by
Ken Burns
Written by
Geoffrey C. Ward
Produced by
Paul Barnes, Ken Burns, David Schaye