As artist director of Kansas City Repertory ... “When the African American boxing champion Jack Johnson performed at the Century in February 1912, Johnson and his white wife could not stay ...

The first Black boxing champion was a man ... a Moroccan-born artist and illustrator living in France. “He knew of Jack Johnson and in seeing his book about the (jazz great) Thelonious Monk ...

Many formidable boxers have entered the ring, but few carried as much power and stature in and out of competition as Jack Johnson (1878–1946). The Galveston, Texas, native became the first Black ...

A boxing match between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries—billed as the ... in “Last on his Feet,” a 319-page work featuring art by Youssef Daoudi. Matejka, a Pike High School alum and the ...

In fact, Jeffries, for the first time in his career, was knocked down twice in the boxing match noted as ... championship and Jeffries lost to Jack Johnson, a Black man, now crowned the first ...

In his heyday as heavyweight champion, which began in 1908 and ended in 1915, it wasn’t enough for promoters to find opponents for Jack Johnson ... introduced Johnson to boxing in the late ...