THREAD
#OTD June 25, 1910 Congress passes the Mann Act. AKA the White-Slave Traffic Act, made it a crime to take women across state lines for immoral purposes. This was used to arrest boxing champ Jack Johnson who traveled with white girlfriends.
Bio: Pt.1
#History #Racism

“And certain unfair persons, piqued because I was champion, decided if they could not get me one way they would another”
Jack Johnson

#OTD June 25, 1910 Congress passes the Mann Act. AKA the White-Slave Traffic Act. It was used to prosecute Johnson.
Bio: Pt.2
#History #Racism

“Miscegenation has always been a preoccupation & fixation in the mind of white America. Black men w/white women. This has always been a concern”

#OTD June 25, 1910 Congress passes the Mann Act. AKA the White-Slave Traffic Act. It was used on Jack Johnson
Pt.3
#History #Racism

“As long I do not interfere w/any other man’s wife, I shall claim the right to select the woman of my own choice...I am not a slave & I have the right to choose who my mate shall be”
Jack Johnson

#OTD June 25, 1910 Congress passes the Mann Act.
Pt.4
#History #Racism

“I do not look upon Jack Johnson as a Race leader. Nor do I in anyway endorse his life & mannerisms for it will not pay anyone to follow it”
Baltimore Afro-American

#OTD June 25, 1910 Congress passes the Mann Act. Jack Johnson was prosecuted by it.
Pt.5
#History #Racism

“They were determined to get Jack Johnson one way or another. The white public demanded it”

#OTD June 25, 1910 Congress passes the Mann Act. AKA the White-Slave Traffic Act. It was used to prosecute heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson.
Pt.6
#History #Racism #MannAct

#OTD June 25, 1910 Congress passes the Mann Act. AKA the White-Slave Traffic Act. It was used to prosecute heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson for traveling across state lines with a white woman. It was consensual.
Pt.7
#History #Racism #MannAct