A map of Galveston, Texas, circa 1904 ... end of the island in Galveston's racially-mixed Twelfth Ward. As a boy, Jack Johnson was a part of the racially mixed 11th Street and Avenue K gang ...

They called him the “Galveston Giant,” boxing’s ... In the late ‘80s, the city renamed 41st Street Jack Johnson Boulevard, but as Texas Monthly noted in 2012, “it is not an attractive ...

According to Johnson's 1927 autobiography, he married Marry Austin, a black girl from Galveston, Texas, in 1898 ... She was the first "Mrs. Jack Johnson," but far from the last.

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Long before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, Jack Johnson broke down racial ... He transformed himself from the docks of Galveston, Texas, to early 20th-century glitterati.

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson ... himself from the docks of Galveston, Texas, to early 20th-century ...