In actuality he forswore no one — he continued to pursue both black and white women for the rest of his life. But from that point on only white women would be "Mrs. Jack Johnson." He met the ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the ... no more sympathetic to a black than "White America" was.

Some of Black History Month's most important icons are from the Lone Star State. If you don't know the history of how these ...

Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion ... But whites finally got what they wanted: the return of the title to the white race. No black would fight for the heavyweight title for ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the ... no more sympathetic to a black than "White America" was.