Brisbane welcomed champion boxer Jack Johnson

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AFTER winning one of history’s greatest sporting events, the world’s most controversial athlete sailed into Brisbane to visit his hero at Toowong.

Jack Johnson was a powerfully built, sharply dressed, black Texan with a shaved head and a row of gold capped teeth that, on February 17, 1909, glistened in Queensland’s summer sunshine.

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