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 ...
Mr. John (Jack) D. Johnson was born July 13, 1929 on a farm in Lower Onslow, Nova Scotia. After attending local schools, he graduated from the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in 1950 and received his ...
Harper had been a favorite musical inspiration of Johnson back in his college days. Plunier agreed to produce Jack Johnson's debut album 'Brushfire Fairytales', released in early 2001 ...