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: Amelia Earhart ...

Two panels from Last on His Feet, depicting boxers Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries Art ©2023 by Youssef ... the two panels above), revisits this “Fight of the Century,” which wasn’t just ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.