Jack Johnson's historic boxing win on July 4,1910, upset much of America. But the next Black world heavyweight champ remains ...

The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...

Boxer Jack Johnson's 1914 memoir "Mes Combats" (My Fights) appears at Harvard University's Widener Library, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007.

Those riots weren’t sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when, despite ...

Boxer Jack Johnson. President Donald Trump says he's considering "a Full Pardon!" for boxing's first black heavyweight champion more than 100 years after Jack Johnson was convicted by all-white ...

The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, “Just remember, whatever you write about me, that I was a man.” ...

After 14 years of lobbying by supporters and family members, former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson finally received a presidential pardon, 72 years after his death.. Born in Texas in ...

Boxing legend Jack Johnson in an undated photo. Jack Johnson, center, and his wife, Etta Terry Duryea Johnson, in an undated photo in Chicago. Etta committed suicide in her room above Johnson’s ...

Boxer Jack Johnson, who was the first black world heavyweight champion, has received a posthumous presidential pardon after years of bipartisan efforts by lawmakers and family members to clear his ...

15th February 1924: American boxer, Jack Johnson (1878-1946) with his wife (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) More. Photos: Legendary heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson.

Jack Johnson, boxer jailed under Jim Crow, is being considered by Trump for pardon. April 21, 2018. Jack Johnson in an undated photo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) ...

Those riots weren’t sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when, despite ...