The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s
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| Management number | 232018442 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$11.94 | Model Number | 232018442 | ||
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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. 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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 1476679800 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1476679808 |
| Edition | Reprint |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | McFarland |
| Dimensions | 7 x 0.61 x 10 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.24 pounds |
| Reading age | 18 years and up |
| Print length | 302 pages |
| Publication date | August 27, 2021 |
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