Johnson hoboed to Chicago in the spring of 1899. He realized that to get anywhere in the boxing business, he needed to find a white manager, but he was unable to find anyone willing to represent him.

According to Johnson's 1927 autobiography, he married Marry Austin, a black girl from Galveston, Texas, in 1898. No record exists of this marriage, and the 1900 census shows him still living at ...

Harder because it happened so long ago. 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 ...

The O'ahu-born musician reflected on his "lucky upbringing" in nature, explaining how it helped inspired him to launch the Kokua Hawaii Foundation non-profit Jack Johnson was on a surfboard before ...

Harder because it happened so long ago. 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 ...