and the couple managed to buy their own home at 808 Broadway, on the eastern end of the island in Galveston's racially-mixed Twelfth Ward. As a boy, Jack Johnson was a part of the racially mixed ...

But he was haunted by the legacy of Jack Johnson. Since 1915, no Negro had been allowed to compete for a major boxing title. Louis' trainer, Jack Blackburn, warned him: "You know, boy, the ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first black man to hold the world heavyweight championship. Johnson is ...