James J. Jeffries
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James Jackson Jeffries was an American professional boxer and world heavyweight champion from 1899 until his initial retirement in 1905.
James J Jeffries
James Jeffries (middle) 1900
Jeffries (left) vs Fitzsimmons (right)
Jeffries (left) vs Corbett (right)
Jack Johnson
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John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion. His 1910 fight against Jam
James J. Jeffries
…Jack London coined the phrase "Great White Hope" to describe Jeffries in his attempt to win the heavyweight crown from African-American world champion Jack Johnson in 1910. Jeffries came out of retirement for the fight, urged on by London and many others who wished to see a white man once again reign as heavyweight…
Johnson in 1915
Johnson standing behind Choynski in Chicago in 1909
Jack Johnson, Sydney, c. 1908
Johnson in 1908 (photograph by Otto Sarony)