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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 ...

But in 1908, 39 years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball, there was Jack Johnson ... that forged Johnson's celebrity, it was against Jim Jeffries, the ...

Jack Johnson — the first ... a "great white hope" who could beat Johnson and win back the title. They finally found him in Johnson's old nemesis, Jim Jeffries, who decided to return from ...

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