Filmed for movie theaters in 1910, the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries was a nationwide phenomenon Narration: T.A. Frail Fact or Fiction? The Legend of the ...

Jim Jeffries, the current heavyweight champion, refused to fight Johnson or any other black boxer. On May 16, Johnson took on the champion's younger brother, Jack Jeffries. After toying with the ...

Referee Hugh McIntosh awarded the championship to Johnson. Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a New ... Burns was a toy in his hands. Jim Jeffries must emerge from his alfalfa farm and remove ...

A Galveston Negro, Jack (“Li’l Arthur”) Johnson, won the championship from ... What worse could be said of a man? Overnight, Jim Jeffries became the first of a series of “white hopes ...

Filmed for movie theaters in 1910, the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries was a nationwide phenomenon Narration: T.A. Frail Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content ...

Referee Hugh McIntosh awarded the championship to Johnson. Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a New ... Burns was a toy in his hands. Jim Jeffries must emerge from his alfalfa farm and remove ...