refused to fight Johnson or any other black boxer. On May 16, Johnson took on the champion's younger brother, Jack Jeffries. After toying with the younger Jeffries for five rounds, Johnson knocked ...

Jack Johnson marries Lucille Cameron in 1912 ... but his status as a fugitive made him much less marketable as a boxer, and the outbreak of World War I the following year collapsed the European ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson ... not for the fact Johnson was the most dominant boxer of his time.