By Colleen Aycock,Mark Scott,Chris Cozzone

ISBN-10: 0786449918

ISBN-13: 9780786449910

This quantity offers fifteen chapters of biography of African American and black champions and challengers of the early prize ring. they vary from Tom Molineaux, a slave who gained freedom and repute within the ring within the early 1800s; to Joe Gans, the 1st African American international champion; to the flowery Jack Johnson, deemed any such hazard to white society that movie of his defeat of former champion and “Great White wish” Jim Jeffries was once banned throughout a lot of the rustic. images, interval drawings, cartoons, and struggle posters increase the biographies. Round-by-round insurance of decide on historical fights is integrated, as is a foreword by means of Hall-of-Fame boxing announcer Al Bernstein.

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