The short, sad story of Cafe de Champion - Jack Johnson`s mixed-race nightclub on Chicago`s South Side
(Chicago Tribune Religion News)

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...