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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       Subjects     Boxers (Sports), Black -- Biography.     Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography.     Boxing -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog       by title:      The first Black boxi...       by call number:      796.830922 F527     Search the Web     Boxers (Sports), Black -- Biography.     Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography.     Boxing -- United States -- History.       MARC Display

The first Black boxing champions : essays on fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s / edited by Colleen Aycock and Mark Scott ; foreword by Al Bernstein. McFarland & Co., c2011. Call #: 796.830922 F527 Subjects Boxers (Sports), Black -- Biography.   Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography.   Boxing -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9780786449910 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper) 0786449918 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper) Description:  viii, 294 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  1. Tom Molineaux: From Slave to American Heavyweight Champion / Bill Calogero -- 2. George Godfrey: First Colored Heavyweight Campion / Tony Triem -- 3. Peter Jackson: Heavyweight Champion of Australia / Bob Petersen -- 4. George Dixon: World Bantamweight and Featherweight Champion / Mike Glenn -- 5. Bobby Dobbs: Lightweight Challenger and Father of Boxing in Germany / Kevin Smith -- 6. Joe Gans: World Lightweight Champion -- 7. Dave Holly: "Challenger of the World" / Douglas Cavanaugh -- 8. Joe Walcott, the Barbados Demon: World Welterweight Champion / Cathy Van Ingen -- 10. Jack Blackburn: From Lightweight Challanger to Trainer of Heavyweight Champions / Joseph Bourelly -- 11. Sam Langord: Heavyweight Champion of Australia, Canada, England, and Mexico / Clay Moyle -- 12. Joe Jennette and Sam McVey: Colored Heavyweight Champions / Alexander Pierpaoli -- 13. Jack Johnson: World Heavyweight Champion / mark Scott -- 14. Speedball Hayden: U.S. Army Middleweight Champion / Chris Cozzone -- 15. Battling Siki: World Light-Heavyweight Champion / Peter Benson Summary:  "Biographies: 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 (film of his defeat of former champion and "Great White Hope" Jim Jeffries was banned across U.S.); round-by-round coverage of historic fights"--Provided by publisher. Other authors:  Aycock, Colleen. Scott, Mark, 1962- Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 796.830922 F527 Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Local History Collection 796.830922 F527 Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList

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