article_snippet.sent: Jack Johnson v James J Jeffries .
article_snippet.sent: James J Jeffries came out of a six-year retirement to take on Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion .
article_snippet.sent: Jack Johnson v James J Jeffries, as the first black world heavyweight champion, was the bane of the white supremacists in America in the early 1900s.
article_snippet.sent: When Jack Johnson v James J Jeffries KO’d their best hope of all, Stanley Ketchel, the crusade to bring their old idol James J Jeffries out of six-year retirement reached a frenzy.
article_snippet.sent: James J Jeffries finally agreed ‘to respond to that portion of the white race that has been looking for me to defend James J Jeffries athletic superiority’
article_snippet.sent: So racist was the press coverage of the build-up to the fight that even The New York Times wrote: ‘If the black man wins, thousands and thousands of the black man ignorant brothers will misinterpret the black man victory as justifying claims to much more than mere physical equality with thousands and thousands of his ignorant brothers white neighbours.'
article_snippet.sent: James J Jeffries, by then a contented farmer, had shed more than 100 lbs to get close to James J Jeffries old fighting weight.
highlights_snippet.sent: First up is 1910's Fight for Race - Jack Johnson v James J Jeffries .