Jack Johnson
Statistics
Real name	John Arthur Johnson
Nickname(s)	Galveston Giant
Rated at	Heavyweight
Height	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Reach	74 in (188 cm)
Nationality	American
Born	(1878-03-31)March 31, 1878 Galveston, Texas
Died	June 10, 1946(1946-06-10) (aged 68) Raleigh, North Carolina
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	94
Wins	54
Wins by KO	35
Losses	11
Draws	8
No contests	??

John Arthur "Jack" Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant was an American boxer, who—at the height of the Jim Crow era—became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). Johnson was faced with much controversy when he was charged with violating the Mann Act in 1912 even though there was an obvious lack of evidence and was largely racially based. In a documentary about his life, Ken Burns notes that "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African-American on Earth.