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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 Champion of the World, ... One of his frequent traveling companions was Hattie McClay, a white prostitute.
In this 1932 file photo, boxer Jack Johnson, the first black world heavyweight champion, poses in New York City. President Donald Trump on Thursday, ... Hattie McClay, with him. ...
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 nature that ...