Biography for
Jack Johnson (VIII) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

31 March 1878, Galveston, Texas, USA

Date of Death

10 June 1946, Franklinton, North Carolina, USA (automobile crash)

Birth Name

Arthur John Johnson

Nickname

Lil' Arthur
The Galveston Giant

Height

6' 1½" (1.87 m)

Spouse

Irene Pineau	(August 1925 - 10 June 1946) (his death)
Lucille Cameron	(4 December 1912 - 1924) (divorced)
Etta Duryea	(January 1911 - 11 September 1912) (her death)

Trivia

World heavyweight boxing champion, 1908-1915.

First black heavyweight boxing champion.

Inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, 1990.

Inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame, 1980.

The play "The Great White Hope" and the subsequent film (The Great White Hope (1970)) are based on Johnson's career and life and the brutal racism he faced as both the first African-American heavyweight boxing champion of the world and as a black man with a white wife.

Holder of three patents, including U.S.patent #1,413,121 for an improved wrench.

Fluent in French and Spanish, Jackson boxed in Montreal, Mexico City and Madrid when banned from the sport in the U.S.

Trained a young boxer named Joe Louis, and often sparred with him.

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