Editing Jack Johnson (boxer) (section)

====Riots and aftermath====
{{main|Johnson–Jeffries riots}}
[[File:LA Times, 7 July 1910.png|thumb|''The LA Times'' noted the explosive nature of Johnson's victory by featuring this cartoon in which a stick of dynamite suggests that it would not have caused as much violence as the fight did.]]
The outcome of the fight triggered [[Mass racial violence in the United States|race riots]] that evening—the [[Independence Day (United States)|Fourth of July]]—all across the United States, from Texas and [[Colorado]] to New York and Washington, D.C.<ref name="Riots">{{cite news |title=A Black Champion's Biggest Fight |url=https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2020/07/a-black-champions-biggest-fight/ |access-date=March 29, 2023 |work=Saturday Evening Post}}</ref> Johnson's victory over Jeffries had dashed white dreams of finding a "great white hope" to defeat him. Many whites felt humiliated by the defeat of Jeffries.<ref name="Burns" />

Black Americans, on the other hand, were jubilant and celebrated Johnson's great victory as a victory for racial advancement. Black poet [[William Waring Cuney]] later highlighted the black reaction to the fight in his poem "My Lord, What a Morning".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pool|first1=Rosey E.|title=Beyond the blues: new poems by American Negroes|publisher=Hand and Flower Press|page=81|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=havoAAAAIAAJ|language=en|year=1962}}</ref>

Race riots, initiated by whites and blacks, erupted in New York, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Atlanta, St. Louis, Little Rock and Houston. In all, riots occurred in more than 25 states and 50 cities.<ref name="Riots"/> At least twenty people were killed in the riots and hundreds more were injured.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/305329/contributors |title=Contributors: Jack Johnson (American boxer) |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=November 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042462/1910-07-05/ed-1/seq-1/ |title=Los Angeles herald [microform]. (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900–1911, 5 July 1910, Image 1 |date=July 5, 1910 |publisher=Chronicilingamerica.loc.gov |access-date=November 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1910-07-06/ed-1/seq-4/ |title=New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866–1924, July 06, 1910, Page 4, Image 4|date=July 6, 1910|page=4|publisher=Chronicilingamerica.loc.gov |access-date=November 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045433/1910-07-06/ed-1/seq-3/ "Deaths Result From Race Riots"]. ''[[The Washington Herald]]''. July 6, 1910. p. 3. Chronicling America, United States Library of Congress.</ref><ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042462/1910-07-05/ed-1/seq-1/ "Fight News is Followed by Race Riots in Many Parts of Country"]. ''Los Angeles Herald''. July 5, 1910. p. 1. Chronicling America, United States Library of Congress.</ref><ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1910-07-05/ed-1/seq-2/ "Whites and Blacks Riot"]. ''[[New York Tribune]]'' July 5, 1910, p. 2. Chronicling America, United States Library of Congress.</ref>