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The First Black Boxing Champions

The First Black Boxing Champions

Essays on Fighters of the 188s to the 1920s

by Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott
Hardback
Publication Date: 31/01/2011

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This volume presents fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. They range from Tom Molineaux, a slave who won freedom and fame in the ring in the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the first African American world champion; to the flamboyant Jack Johnson, deemed such a threat to white society that film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across much of the country. Photographs, period drawings, cartoons, and fight posters enhance the biographies. Round-by-round coverage of select historic fights is included, as is a foreword by Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.
ISBN:
9780786449910
9780786449910
Category:
Boxing
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
31-01-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
McFarland & Co Inc
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
302
Dimensions (mm):
254x178x23mm
Weight:
0.7kg

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