Jack Johnson, center, and his wife, Etta Terry Duryea Johnson, in an undated photo in Chicago. Etta committed suicide in her room above Johnson’s Cafe de Champion in September 1912.
Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson before his fight with Jim Jeffries in 1910 in Reno, Nevada.
Heavyweight champion Jack Johnson waits as challenger Jim Jeffries struggles to his feet during their match on July 4, 1910, in Reno, Nev.
This photo is believed to be Jack Johnson, top left, at his wife Etta’s funeral on Sept. 14, 1912, with his mother-in-law, Mrs. David Terry, center. Editors note: this print has been partially hand painted.
Boxing legend Jack Johnson in an undated photo.
Pugilist Jack Johnson sits in the driver’s seat of a convertible automobile on a snow-covered street in Chicago, circa 1910s. Adults and boys are standing in the background.
Cafe de Champion, owned by Jack Johnson, in an undated photo. The club opened in 1912 at 41 West 31st Street. It was a “black and tan” club, meaning it was open to both whites and blacks. The lavishly decorated club only last a couple months before it was shut down by police.
Jack Johnson and his wife, Lucille Cameron Johnson, circa 1921. “I don’t care whether he is white or black, I love him,” Lucille said during a 1912 court appearance.
A large crowd gathers on the street in front of a house where Jack Johnson’s reception was taking place in Chicago in 1910. American flags are hanging on the front of the house and strung on a line between two trees in front of the house.
Jack Johnson drives a small wagon pulled by two small donkeys on the sidewalk in front of a house in Chicago in 1910. A group of both Caucasians and African Americans are gathered along the fence and on the porch in front of the house.
Boxing legend Jack Johnson, right, in 1910.
Boxing legend Jack Johnson in 1921.
Foul and a decision during a Jack Johnson fight in an undated photo.
Jack Johnson, right, world heavyweight title holder since 1908, in action against Jess Willard at Havana, Cuba in 1915. Willard took the title with a knock-out in the 26th round and held onto it until 1919.
Former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson and his wife, Irene, at Paris’ Champs-Elysees in 1933. When a reporter asked Irene about her feelings for Johnson at his funeral, she replied, “I loved him because of his courage.He faced the world unafraid. There wasn’t anybody or anything he feared.”
The prize fight referee, right, with Jack Johnson, left, former heavyweight champion, when he appeared before Chief Justice Sullivan yesterday for assignment of case in 1935.
Former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson’s coffin is carried from his funeral service at Pilgrim Baptist Church on South Indiana Avenue in Chicago in 1946. Johnson was killed in an auto crash at Raleigh, N.C.
Former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson preparing for a boxing exhibiton at a war bond show in New York iin 1945.
