As told in song back around the turn of the centuries, back around nineteen hundred and thirteen...by Jamie Brockett:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg
From my misspent yout’, cruising around the middle of what would later become known as Trump Country listening to Beaker Street on KAAY, Little Rock, which was the only place we could hear stuff like this. So we all knew all about the Negro pugilist named Jack Johnson and:
“Now he wouldn’t let Jack Johnson on board
they said this ship don’t haul no coal
Fare thee well Titanic,
fare thee well.”
Lyrics: http://www.rkdn.org/titanic%20lyrics.htm
LOL! The USS Titanic?
I had that album, great song. I even remember a New York radio station that would play it, pretty rare for one that long.