In his heyday as heavyweight champion, which began in 1908 and ended in 1915, it wasn’t enough for promoters to find opponents for Jack Johnson. They needed white ones.

Johnson’s subsequent victory sparked race riots across the US, pitching a Black community – jubilant that their champion had won – against their White counterparts, seething with anger at ...

Johnson was a target of racial hostility, his actions demonized to “protect” white womanhood from Black masculinity.

Undefeated in the boxing ring, Jack Johnson was brought down by racist law for dating white women. More than a century after his conviction, there's a growing movement to get him pardoned.

Jack Johnson was boxing's first black heavyweight champion. His dominance in the ring a century ago led writer Jack London and others to yearn for a "great white hope." ...

For white Americans of his time, however, Johnson was a threat. ... Fearing the next Jack Johnson, a black man was not allowed to fight for a title again until 1937, ...

President Donald Trump pardoned black boxing champion Jack Johnson on Thursday, posthumously nullifying his conviction by an all-white jury for an interracial relationship more than 100 years ago.

Johnson’s subsequent victory sparked race riots across the US, pitching a Black community – jubilant that their champion had won – against their White counterparts, seething with anger at ...

Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion. ... He was found guilty in 1913 by an all-white jury, even though the woman in question was his wife at the time of conviction.

Johnson’s subsequent victory sparked race riots across the US, pitching a Black community – jubilant that their champion had won – against their White counterparts, seething with anger at ...