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 ...

No record exists of this marriage, and the 1900 census shows him still living at home ... married, Johnson introduced Austin as his wife wherever he went. She was the first "Mrs. Jack Johnson ...

Johnson returned home to Galveston. The following month ... On May 16, Johnson took on the champion's younger brother, Jack Jeffries. After toying with the younger Jeffries for five rounds ...

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 ...