The First Black Boxing Champions

The First Black Boxing Champions
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9780786461882
ISBN-13 : 0786461888
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Book Synopsis The First Black Boxing Champions by : Colleen Aycock

Download or read book The First Black Boxing Champions written by Colleen Aycock and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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