He met the next "Mrs. Jack Johnson" on August 8, 1907. Hattie McClay, whose real name was Anna Peterson, was a prostitute working in a "call house" in Manhattan. She quickly became Johnson's most ...

Jack Johnson — the first African-American Heavyweight ... One of his frequent traveling companions was Hattie McClay, a white prostitute. They were later joined by Belle Schreiber, also a ...

Also that year, Jack Johnson Park opened behind Old Central ... the champ planned to bring a white woman (and prostitute), Hattie McClay, with him. His exploits so threatened the white ...

Jack Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight champion and the subject of Ken Burns’ latest documentary “Unforgivable Blackness: the Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson,” was a force of ...