Jack Johnson Championship Fight Jack Johnson fights Tommy Burns for the Heavy Weight Championship Title I President Trump Issues Posthumous Pardon for Jack Johnson On May 24, 2018, President Donald Trump officially pardoned John Johnson, the former heavyweight boxing champion. Who was Jack Johnson and what crime did he commit that the president granted him a pardon years after Johnson’s death? Johnson’s Early Years John Arthur (Jack) Johnson was born on March 31, 1878, in Galveston, Texas, not many years after the Civil War had freed the slaves in the South. Johnson’s parents were former slaves Henry and Tina Johnson. Jack Johnson was one of Henry and Tina’s several children and Jack did not receive much of a formal education. He was forced at a young age to drop out of school to take employment on the docks to help support his family. But Johnson was a tall, large black man who would not settle for just being a common dock worker. Instead, he set his sights on becoming the first African American heavyweight boxing champion. Jack Johnson’s List of Major Fights Jack Johnson (nicknamed the Galveston Giant) formally began his boxing career on Nov 1st, 1898. He had […]
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