But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson ... native Galveston. He grew to be 6 feet, 1 1/4 inches and a giant ...

Jack Johnson was known for his patient boxing ... 200-pound Johnson, nicknamed the “Galveston Giant” after his Texas birthplace. Last on His Feet, a graphic novel written by the American ...

on the eastern end of the island in Galveston's racially-mixed Twelfth Ward. As a boy, Jack Johnson was a part of the racially mixed 11th Street and Avenue K gang, although he claimed in his 1927 ...

In the other corner was John “Jack” Arthur Johnson, the “Galveston Giant,” who had taken the title a year and a half before from Tommy Burns in Sydney, Australia, beating the Canadian ...

Despite the lack of prize money, Johnson's victory in the ring had impressed Jack Curley ... Johnson returned home to Galveston. The following month, veteran boxer Joe Choynski arrived in ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson ... native Galveston. He grew to be 6 feet, 1 1/4 inches and a giant ...