Jack Johnson is a Hawaii-born, California-based guitarist and folk singer-songwriter best known for albums like Brushfire Fairytales. The man from North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii has been labelled a ...

Jack Johnson was one of the toughest boxers who ever lived. In nearly a half century of boxing he was only knocked out three times. Arthur John Johnson, the son of a former slave, was born in 1878 ...

In addition to Jack Johnson, the first decade of the 20th century produced three other great African-American boxers: Joe Jeanette, Sam Langford and Sam McVey. According to boxing historian Nat ...

Long before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, Jack Johnson broke down racial boundaries in the boxing ring. And nearly everywhere else he went. More than a boxer, Johnson was a force ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson -- the first ... in 1901 and, on Feb. 3, 1903, in Los Angeles, won the ...