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Portrait of world heavyweight champion boxer Jack Johnson throwing a medicine ball while standing in the courtyard of a brick building in Chicago, IL, 1910. Johnson was the first African American to hold this title. An unidentified man holding a coat is standing to the left of the image. (Photo by Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)

Portrait of world heavyweight champion boxer Jack Johnson throwing a medicine ball while standing in the courtyard of a brick building in Chicago, IL, 1910. Johnson was the first African American to hold this title. An unidentified man holding a coat is standing to the left of the image. (Photo by Chicago Sun-Times/Chicago Daily News collection/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)