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 ...

Jack Johnson — the first African-American Heavyweight ... who was considered by many to be the greatest heavyweight in history — for a shot at the title. For 14 years, Johnson had made a ...

Joined in the Oval Office by actor Sylvester Stallone and boxer Lennox Lewis, Mr Trump said the move corrected a historic US wrong to Jack Johnson. Johnson was arrested in 1912 with Lucille ...

The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. Marsalis and Ken Burns also worked together on Burns's 2000 PBS documentary Jazz, a 10-part series that explored the history of Jazz music, on which Marsalis was ...

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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 ...