The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s

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Details

Release date Australia

February 15th, 2011

Contributor

Edited by Mark Scott

Dimensions (mm)

178x254x23

Country of Publication

United States

Imprint

McFarland & Co Inc

ISBN-13

9780786449910

Product ID

8511686

Description

This volume presents fifteen detailed biographies of some of the first African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. Boxers covered 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.