The first Black boxing champions : essays on fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s

• Tác giả: Colleen Aycock, Mark Scott
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 9780786449910 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 796.830922 796.830922 Combat sports
• Thông tin xuất bản: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2010.
• Mô tả vật lý: vii, 294 p. : , ill. ; , 27 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 271190
• Chủ đề: 1. African American boxers; 2. Boxers (Sports)--United States; 3. Boxing--History--United States

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

 "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.