Editing Jack Johnson (boxer) (section)

===Marriages===
[[File:Jack Johnson and his wife Etta LCCN2011649815 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Johnson with his wife Etta Duryea, who killed herself in 1912]]

Johnson engaged in various relationships, including three documented marriages. All of his documented wives were white. At the height of his career, Johnson was excoriated by the press for his flashy lifestyle and for having married white women.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/305329/|title=Jack Johnson|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=September 30, 2014}}</ref>

According to Johnson's 1927 autobiography, he married Mary Austin, a black woman from Galveston, Texas. No record exists of this marriage.<ref name="WOMEN" />

While in Philadelphia in 1903, Johnson met Clara Kerr, a black [[prostitute]]. According to Johnson's autobiography, Kerr left him for Johnson's friend, a racehorse trainer named William Bryant. They stole Johnson's jewelry and clothing when they left. Johnson tracked the couple down and had Kerr arrested on burglary charges. Johnson and Kerr reconciled for a while before she left him again.<ref name="WOMEN" />

During a three-month tour of Australia in 1907, Johnson had a brief affair with Alma "Lola" Toy, a white woman from Sydney. Johnson confirmed to an American journalist that he intended to marry Toy. When ''[[The Referee (newspaper)|The Referee]]'' printed Johnson's plans to marry Toy, it caused controversy in [[Sydney]]. Toy demanded a retraction and later won a libel lawsuit from the newspaper.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line|last=Runstedtler|first=Theresa|publisher=University of California Press|year=2013|isbn=9780520280113}}</ref>

After returning from Australia, Johnson said that "the heartaches which Mary Austin and Clara Kerr caused me led me to forswear colored women and to determine that my lot henceforth would be cast only with white women."<ref name="WOMEN" />

Johnson met Etta Terry Duryea, a Brooklyn socialite and former wife of Clarence Duryea, at a car race in 1909. In 1910, Johnson hired a private investigator to follow Duryea after suspecting she was having an affair with his chauffeur. On Christmas Day, Johnson confronted Duryea and beat her to the point of hospitalization.<ref name="WOMEN">{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unforgivable-blackness/women|title=The Women in Johnson's Life|website=PBS}}</ref> They reconciled and were married on January 18, 1911.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=February 10, 1912|title=Champion Johnson Weds White Woman|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19120210.2.188&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|journal=Sacramento Union|access-date=December 31, 2019|archive-date=August 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801234245/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19120210.2.188&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|url-status=dead}}</ref> Prone to depression, her condition worsened due to Johnson's [[Domestic violence|abuse]] and [[infidelity]] in addition to the hostile reaction to their interracial relationship.<ref name=":1" /> Duryea [[Suicide attempt|attempted suicide]] twice before she died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on September 11, 1912.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://img.newspapers.com/img/img?id=33457078&width=557&height=2553&crop=3749_1210_919_4290&rotation=0&brightness=0&contrast=0&invert=0&ts=1577764897&h=0a6f1480cb2477076aedd1cf8dacf7da |title=Jack Johnson's Wife Commits Suicide At Her New Home|date=September 13, 1912|work=The Pittsburgh Courier}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Pugilist Says Wife Twice Saved Him|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2051003/pugilist_says_wife_twice_saved_him/|work=The Gazette Times|location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|date=September 13, 1912|page=6}}</ref>

In the summer of 1912, Johnson met Lucille Cameron, an 18-year-old prostitute from [[Minneapolis]] who relocated to Chicago, at his nightclub Café de Champion.<ref name=":1" /> Johnson hired her as his [[Shorthand|stenographer]], but shortly after Duryea's funeral, they were out in public as a couple. They married on December 3, 1912, at 3:00&nbsp;p.m.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Los Angeles Herald 3 December 1912 — California Digital Newspaper Collection|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19121203.2.16&srpos=6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-jack+johnson+Lucille+Cameron-------1|access-date=2020-10-12|website=cdnc.ucr.edu}}</ref> Cameron filed for divorce in 1924 due to his infidelity.<ref name="WOMEN" />

Johnson met Irene Pineau at the race track in [[Aurora, Illinois]], in 1924. After she divorced her husband the following year, they were married in [[Waukegan, Illinois|Waukegan]] in August 1925. Johnson and Pineau were together until his death in 1946. When asked by a reporter at Johnson's funeral what she had loved about him, she replied: "I loved him because of his courage. He faced the world unafraid. There wasn't anybody or anything he feared."<ref name="WOMEN" />