on July 4, 1910 for the first "Fight of the Century," the bout matching ... Referee Hugh McIntosh awarded the championship to Johnson. Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a New York newspaper ...

Filmed for movie theaters in 1910, the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries was a nationwide phenomenon Narration: T.A. Frail Who Was the Real Cleopatra?

WASHINGTON, July 5, 1910 (UP) - One striking evidence of the superiority of the United Press service on the Jeffries-Johnson fight was presented ... At any rate Jack Johnson today stands forth ...

Black people during the early 20th century ... Jack Johnson's contemporaries include Sam McVey, Sam Langford, Joe Jeanette and Denver Ed Martin. Most of the time black heavyweights had to fight ...

on July 4, 1910 for the first "Fight of the Century," the bout matching ... Referee Hugh McIntosh awarded the championship to Johnson. Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a New York newspaper ...