In the summer of 1912, Jack Johnson met Lucille Cameron, an 18-year-old prostitute from Milwaukee who visited the Café de Champion with a friend. He soon hired her as his "stenographer," but less than a month after Etta Duryea's funeral she was seen in public on Johnson's arm. In October, Cameron's mother went to the police and charged Johnson with kidnapping her daughter. She told the press, "Jack Johnson has hypnotic powers, and he has exercised them on my little girl. I would rather see my daughter spend the rest of her life in an insane asylum than see her the plaything of a nigger." On October 18, Johnson was arrested for violating the Mann Act, but Cameron refused to cooperate and the case fell apart. Less than a month later, Johnson was arrested again on Mann Act charges. On December 4 — less than three months after Duryea's suicide — Johnson and Cameron were married, an act that outraged the public.
After his Mann Act conviction in June 1913, Johnson skipped bail. He appeared in Montreal on June 25, where Lucille was waiting for him. For the next seven years, they lived in exile in Europe, South America and Mexico, until Johnson surrendered to the authorities on July 20, 1920. When Johnson was released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 9, 1920, Lucille was waiting. Four years later, she filed for divorce — on the uncontested charge of infidelity.
After his Mann Act conviction in June 1913, Johnson skipped bail. He appeared in Montreal on June 25, where Lucille was waiting for him. For the next seven years, they lived in exile in Europe, South America and Mexico, until Johnson surrendered to the authorities on July 20, 1920. When Johnson was released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 9, 1920, Lucille was waiting. Four years later, she filed for divorce — on the uncontested charge of infidelity.
In the summer of 1912, Jack Johnson met Lucille Cameron, an 18-year-old prostitute from Milwaukee who visited the Café de Champion with a friend. He soon hired her as his "stenographer," but less than a month after Etta Duryea's funeral she was seen in public on Johnson's arm. In October, Cameron's mother went to the police and charged Johnson with kidnapping her daughter. She told the press, "Jack Johnson has hypnotic powers, and he has exercised them on my little girl. I would rather see my daughter spend the rest of her life in an insane asylum than see her the plaything of a nigger." On October 18, Johnson was arrested for violating the Mann Act, but Cameron refused to cooperate and the case fell apart. Less than a month later, Johnson was arrested again on Mann Act charges. On December 4 — less than three months after Duryea's suicide — Johnson and Cameron were married, an act that outraged the public.
After his Mann Act conviction in June 1913, Johnson skipped bail. He appeared in Montreal on June 25, where Lucille was waiting for him. For the next seven years, they lived in exile in Europe, South America and Mexico, until Johnson surrendered to the authorities on July 20, 1920. When Johnson was released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 9, 1920, Lucille was waiting. Four years later, she filed for divorce — on the uncontested charge of infidelity.
After his Mann Act conviction in June 1913, Johnson skipped bail. He appeared in Montreal on June 25, where Lucille was waiting for him. For the next seven years, they lived in exile in Europe, South America and Mexico, until Johnson surrendered to the authorities on July 20, 1920. When Johnson was released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, on July 9, 1920, Lucille was waiting. Four years later, she filed for divorce — on the uncontested charge of infidelity.
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