Editing Jack Johnson (boxer) (section)

==Death==
[[File:Jack johnson boxer grave.jpg|thumb|Graves of Jack and Etta Johnson in [[Graceland Cemetery]], Chicago]]

On June 10, 1946, Johnson and a friend were en route to New York from Texas and visited a [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregated]] diner; when the diner refused to serve him, Johnson drove away angrily with his friend in the passenger seat.<ref name="Internet Archive" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boxingnewsonline.net/on-this-day-heavyweight-legend-jack-johnson-died/|title=On this day: Heavyweight Jack Johnson died|website=boxingnewsonline.net|date=June 9, 2017 |access-date=February 25, 2021}}</ref> The car collided with a telegraph pole on [[U.S. Route 1 in North Carolina|U.S. Highway 1]] near [[Franklinton, North Carolina]].{{efn|Co-ordinates of the crash site: {{coord|36|5|41.96|N|78|27| 40.81|W|scale:5000|display=inline}}}} While his friend survived the crash, Johnson suffered fatal injuries and died later that day at [[St. Agnes Hospital (Raleigh, North Carolina)|St. Agnes Hospital]] in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]], which was the nearest black hospital, at 6:10 pm. He was 68 years old.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=The News & Observer|title=Trump pardons heavyweight Jack Johnson, who died in Raleigh's segregated hospital|date=May 24, 2018 |url=https://www.newsobserver.com/news/nation-world/article211833674.html}}</ref><ref name=Aberia/>

Johnson was buried at [[Graceland Cemetery]] in [[Chicago]] next to his first wife, Etta Duryea Johnson, who committed suicide in 1912. His grave was initially unmarked, but was later marked with a large tombstone which says only "Johnson". An additional marker was added after filmmaker [[Ken Burns]] released a film about Johnson's life in 2005. Johnson's new, smaller gravestone reads: "Jack / John A. Johnson. 1878{{endash}}1946. First black heavyweight champion of the world." Johnson's signature is on the back of the stone.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://billiongraves.com/grave/John-A-Jack-Johnson/19737283|title=John A. 'Jack' Johnson|website=billiongraves.com|access-date=February 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-jack-johnson-posthumous-pardon-20180209-story.html |newspaper=Chicago Tribune|title=Jack Johnson descendant seeking posthumous pardon for racially motivated 'immorality' conviction|date=February 9, 2018}}</ref>