Jack Johnson #1278

Caption from poster__   Jack Johnson   Jack Johnson once speeding through a southern town, and was stop by the local sheriff for speeding.  The sheriff  said boy this fine going to cost you fifty dollars Johnson reach in his pocket pulls out hundred-dollar bill. The sheriff replied boy I don’t have change for that, Johnson replied keep it . I’m coming back the same way.    John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), better known as Jack Johnson and nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer and arguably the best heavyweight of his generation. He was the first black Heavyweight Champion of the World, 1908-1915. In a documentary about his life, Ken Burns said: "For more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous, and the most notorious, African-American on Earth". Jack Johnson was born in Galveston, Texas as the third child and first son of Henry and Tina "Tiny" Johnson, former slaves and faithful Methodists, who both worked blue-collar jobs to earn