Discusses the life and boxing career of Jack Johnson.

In this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age. Jack Johnson battled

The first African American to win the world heavyweight championship, Johnson recounts without bitterness the prejudice that dogged his public and private lives

Although largely ignored by historians of both baseball in general and the Negro leagues in particular, Latinos have been a significant presence in organized ba

2011 Selection for the Amelia Bloomer Project. From the time she was a girl growing up in the shadow of Lexington Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Toni Stone knew