Editing Jack Johnson (boxer) (section)

====Film of the bout====
''[[The Johnson–Jeffries Fight]]'' film received more public attention in the United States than any other film to date and for the next five years, until the release of ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]''.<ref name="cinema">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9cc71Uekc_EC&pg=PA502 |date=August 1, 2004 |title=Encyclopedia of Early Cinema |isbn=9780415234405 |last1=Abel |first1=Richard|publisher=Taylor & Francis }}</ref> In the United States, many states and cities banned the exhibition of the Johnson–Jeffries film. The movement to [[Censorship|censor]] Johnson's victory took over the country within three days after the fight.<ref name="ssrn.com">{{cite SSRN|ssrn=1563863 |title=The Johnson–Jeffries Fight and Censorship of Black Supremacy}}</ref>

Two weeks after the match former President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], an avid boxer and fan, wrote an article for ''[[The Outlook (New York)|The Outlook]]'' in which he supported banning not just moving pictures of boxing matches, but a complete ban on all prize fights in the US. He cited the "crookedness" and gambling that surrounded such contests and that moving pictures have "introduced a new method of money getting and of demoralization".<ref name="ssrn.com" /> 

In 2005, the film of the Jeffries–Johnson "Fight of the Century" was entered into the United States [[National Film Registry]] as being worthy of preservation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2005.html |title=National Film Registry 2005: Films Selected to the National Film Registry (National Film Preservation Board, Library of Congress) |publisher=Loc.gov |access-date=November 27, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140208150126/http://www.loc.gov/film/nfr2005.html |archive-date= February 8, 2014 }}</ref>

The six fights for which the major films were made, starring Johnson, were
# Johnson–Burns, released in 1908<ref name="cinema" />
# Johnson–Ketchel, released in 1909<ref name="cinema" />
# Johnson–Jeffries, released in 1910<ref name="cinema" />
# Johnson–Flynn, released in 1912<ref name="cinema" />
# Johnson–Moran, released in 1914<ref name="cinema" />
# Johnson–Willard, released in 1915<ref name="cinema" />