article_snippet.sent: While Jack Johnson's victory wouldn't raise an eyebrow nowadays, it caused consternation in America for one simple reason: Jack Johnson was black — and a black man had never held sport's greatest prize.
article_snippet.sent: It mattered little that Jack Johnson was American.
article_snippet.sent: Jack Johnson skin was deemed the wrong colour and a great cry went up from white America to find a white challenger — a 'Great White Hope' — who could unseat the first ever black world heavyweight champion.
article_snippet.sent: But little did white America know that white America would take over six years before Jack Johnson would be defeated, on April 5, 1915, 100 years ago on Sunday.
article_snippet.sent: What made Jack Johnson even more unbearable to white America was the way Jack Johnson lived Jack Johnson life.
article_snippet.sent: A fun-loving character, Jack Johnson dated and married white women, and refused to live according to the social norms of the time.
article_snippet.sent: A fun-loving character, Johnson dated and married white women, and refused to live according to the social norms of the time was intelligent, eloquent and ambitious and saw no reason why A fun-loving character, Johnson dated and married white women, and refused to live according to the social norms of the time being black should hold A fun-loving character, Johnson dated and married white women, and refused to live according to the social norms of the time back from doing whatever A fun-loving character, Johnson dated and married white women, and refused to live according to the social norms of the time wanted.
article_snippet.sent: Jack Johnson was found guilty by an all-white jury and sentenced to a year in prison.
article_snippet.sent: With Jack Johnson money running low and the First World War breaking out in Europe, Jack Johnson accepted the challenge of another 'white hope' from America.
highlights_snippet.sent: During a particularly racist period of American history, Jack Johnson's title reign was met with many protests .
  