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Sunday, September 15, 2024
Jeffries
Jim Jeffries won the world heavyweight boxing championship in 1899.
The photo above is from 1910 when he lost to Jack Johnson.
That boxing bout was known as the fight of the century between Jeffries the Great White Hope and Johnson, a black man. It then led to a series of violent race riots after the match. Jeffries, later in life, promoted boxing out of his barn at a farm he owned in Burbank, today the barn is at Knotts Berry Farm !…:)
That boxing bout was known as the fight of the century between Jeffries the Great White Hope and Johnson, a black man. It then led to a series of violent race riots after the match. Jeffries, later in life, promoted boxing out of his barn at a farm he owned in Burbank, today the barn is at Knotts Berry Farm !…:)
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