Boxer Jack Johnson's 1914 memoir "Mes Combats" (My Fights) appears at Harvard University's Widener Library, in Cambridge, Mass., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007.

After 14 years of lobbying by supporters and family members, former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson finally received a presidential pardon, 72 years after his death.. Born in Texas in ...

Boxer Jack Johnson. President Donald Trump says he's considering "a Full Pardon!" for boxing's first black heavyweight champion more than 100 years after Jack Johnson was convicted by all-white ...

Those riots weren’t sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when, despite ...

Jack Johnson, boxer jailed under Jim Crow, is being considered by Trump for pardon. April 21, 2018. Jack Johnson in an undated photo (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) ...

Boxing legend Jack Johnson in an undated photo. Jack Johnson, center, and his wife, Etta Terry Duryea Johnson, in an undated photo in Chicago. Etta committed suicide in her room above Johnson’s ...

American boxer Jack Johnson (1878 - 1946), is pictured July 4, 1910. Johnson was the first African-American World Champion, after he defeated Jim Jeffries in Reno, Nevada.

The first Black boxing champion was a man named Jack Johnson and a few years before he died in 1946, he told a young reporter, “Just remember, whatever you write about me, that I was a man.” ...

President Donald Trump has granted a full posthumous pardon to boxing legend Jack Johnson, about a month after he announced he was considering clemency. Posted 3:20 p.m. Apr 22, 2018 — Updated 6 ...

15th February 1924: American boxer, Jack Johnson (1878-1946) with his wife (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) More. Photos: Legendary heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson.

Those riots weren’t sparked by police brutality, but by a boxing match. In 1908, Jack Johnson became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion of the world, fighting at a time when, despite ...

On July 4, 1910, Black boxer Jack Johnson's victory over white boxer James Jeffries sent shockwaves around the world and sparked race riots across the U.S.