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How a Heavyweight Champ and a Cartoonist Flouted Race Hate

ODD COUPLE

The unlikely friendship between the first black heavy weight champion Jack Johnson and celebrated cartoonist Tad Dorgan changed both boxing and cartooning.

Michael Tisserand
Michael Tisserand
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