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 ...

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

We spoke with Youssef Daoudi and poet Adrian Matejka about 'Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century,' a lyrically structured graphic recreation of the historic 1910 ...

Jack Johnson and Etta Duryea in 1910 | Library Of Congress. Mary Austin According to Johnson's 1927 autobiography, he married Marry Austin, a black girl from Galveston, Texas, in 1898.

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.

Remembering Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion. The Texas-born fighter faced down his opponents and took down the ‘Great White Hope’ movement that was designed to end ...