On May 1, 1900, Johnson took on his first white opponent ... fight Johnson or any other black boxer. On May 16, Johnson took on the champion's younger brother, Jack Jeffries.

Campaigners calling for a boxer to become the first black person to be honoured with a statue in Manchester have said the ...

US President Donald Trump has pardoned boxing's first black heavyweight ... a full pardon posthumously to Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion of the world," Mr Trump ...

A boxing match between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard in Havana ... His defeat of Tommy Burns in 1908 made him the first Black boxer to win the World Heavyweight Championship.

In 1908, when Jack Johnson ... the "manly art" of boxing. Fear of Black Superiority Whether due to his enormous talent in the ring or his ostentatious personality, Jack Johnson frightened many ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first ... boxing at the time, but it was no more sympathetic to a black ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first ... boxing at the time, but it was no more sympathetic to a black ...