[Download] The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s
| #2241138 in Books | McFarland | 2011-01-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.10 x.90 x7.00l,1.54 | File Name: 0786449918 | 302 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Boxing Historian Heaven|By Chris M. Carlisle|What a great historical book on boxing and some of it's earliest pioneers. I really enjoyed learning from this book about how some of the greatest boxers from my race. The stories are very well put together, and I will be using this book as a reference guide as well. It even includes some classic match descriptions! Please do yourse||"Extremely well written and chronicled...painstakingly researched, by writers who show a heartfelt passion for their subjects...a must." --Ring Memorabilia
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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. Ph...
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