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 ...

Filmed for movie theaters in 1910, the heavyweight championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries was a nationwide phenomenon Narration: T.A. Frail National Treasure: The Mold Behind 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 ...

This was retired Champion Jim Jeffries's reply to the cabled report from Australia of an offer for him to fight Johnson. Jeffries made it more emphatic: View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

If there was one fight that forged Johnson's celebrity, it was against Jim Jeffries, the former heavyweight ... Popular novelist Jack London wrote in a New York newspaper that it was a match ...

A year and a half later, former champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement to face Johnson as "The Great White Hope." On July 4, 1910, in what was described at the time as "The Fight of the ...

Jack Johnson — the first ... They finally found him in Johnson's old nemesis, Jim Jeffries, who decided to return from retirement and give Johnson the fight he had always wanted.