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The short, sad story of Cafe de Champion — Jack Johnson's mixed-race nightclub on Chicago's South Side

The monogrammed spittoons were said to be solid silver. Fifteen thousand dollars' worth of oil paintings of the owner and his family hung on the walls, and mosaic inlaid tile covered the floor from front to back. Its “auspicious inaugural function” — a “grand opening” was deemed too plebeian for...

 

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