Two panels from Last on His Feet, depicting boxers Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries Art ©2023 by Youssef Daoudi. Text ©2023 by Adrian Matejka. By permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation ...

Jack Johnson had won the title six and a half years earlier, in December 1908, but had had to travel to Australia to beat a Canadian in order to ascend to the throne for which he had been the ...