In this 1932 file photo, boxer Jack Johnson, the first black world heavyweight champion, poses in New York City. President Donald Trump on Thursday, May 24, 2018, granted a rare posthumous pardon ...

Texas History Galveston Moves One Step Closer to Embracing Jack Johnson A group of Galvestonians work to open Jack Johnson Park, the city’s latest effort to reclaim its most famous son since ...

Former heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson poses for a photographer at age 53 in 1931, 23 years after he became the first black boxer to hold the world heavyweight title. Lawmakers have staged ...

Born in Galveston, Texas, the son of former slaves, Johnson was a dock worker in his teenage years. He left home at 16, making it as far as New York, surviving by working as a janitor or stable boy.

Many formidable boxers have entered the ring, but few carried as much power and stature in and out of competition as Jack Johnson (1878–1946). The Galveston, Texas, native became the first Black ...

The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...

From a take on Galveston’s Jack Johnson, ... Examining the Texas Chain Saw Massacre’s legacy and impact 50 years after its premiere; Suburban population boom (Sept. 13, 2024) ...

Jack Johnson stepped into the boxing ring for the last time nearly a century ago. The Galveston native has been gone since 1946, when he sped away from a North Carolina diner that refused him ...

Arthur John Johnson was born on March 31, 1878, in Galveston, Texas. His parents, both newly emancipated slaves, worked blue-collar jobs. Johnson dropped out of school as a young teen to work odd ...