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Jack Johnson marries Lucille Cameron in 1912 ... He asked the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation (forerunner of the FBI) to mount an all-out effort to "secure evidence [of] illegal ...
Jack Johnson had won the title six and a half years earlier, in December 1908, but had had to travel to Australia to beat a Canadian in order to ascend to the throne for which he had been the ...
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 ...
Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson raised new allegations of the Biden White House directly helping the FBI secure cellphones belonging to Donald Trump and Mike Pence.
Two panels from Last on His Feet, depicting boxers Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries Art ©2023 by Youssef Daoudi. Text ©2023 by Adrian Matejka. By permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation ...
In 1908, when Jack Johnson fought Tommy Burns to become the first African American heavyweight champion of the world, a search began for a "Great White Hope" to take back the title. American ...