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Boxers (Sports), Black -- Biography.
Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography.
Boxing -- United States -- History.
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Boxers (Sports), Black -- Biography.
Boxers (Sports) -- United States -- Biography.
Boxing -- United States -- History.
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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-
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796.830922 F527
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796.830922 F527
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