But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first black man to hold the world heavyweight championship. Johnson is ...

"I've issued an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon posthumously to Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight champion of the world," Mr Trump said. "He served 10 months for what ...

I n its simplest form, athletes are evaluated by wins and losses. Boxers risk their lives every time they step into the ring.

We travel all the way back to 1907 to look at the time when legendary Canadian heavyweight Tommy Burns defended his title ...

Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion, whose reign lasted from 1908 to 1915, was also the first African American pop culture icon. He was photographed more than any other black man of ...

Kilbane, champion for 10 more years, never gives Dundee a rematch. May 13 - Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, charged with violating the Mann Act by allegedly transporting Belle Schreiber across ...

Filmed for movie theaters in 1910, the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries was a nationwide phenomenon Narration: T.A. Frail National Treasure: The Mold Behind the ...

Among the heavyweight champions who came closest to matching ... The son of former slaves, Jack Johnson didn’t hold back in defying social norms expected of a Black American.

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first black man to hold the world heavyweight championship. Johnson is ...