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Full-length group portrait of Jack Johnson, African American pugilist, throwing a left hook at pugilist Joe Choynski, standing in front of a light-colored backdrop in a room in Chicago, IL, 1909. (Photo by Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)

Full-length group portrait of Jack Johnson, African American pugilist, throwing a left hook at pugilist Joe Choynski, standing in front of a light-colored backdrop in a room in Chicago, IL, 1909. (Photo by Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)