The Fight Game in Black and White A History of Black Boxing

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Title: The Fight Game in Black and White A History of Black Boxing
Author: Ray Scott, Charley Rosen
Category: Biography & Memoir, Boxing, Military
Language: English | 672 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781644215609​

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An American sports legend offers a sweeping Black history of boxing, celebrating the trailblazing athletes who fought in the ring and against racial injustice.

Features a 16-page photo insert.
Here is Peter Jackson, a free-born Black tradesman and boxer from the island of St. Croix who KO'd the white boxer Tom Leeds in the thirtieth round to win the Australian Heavyweight championship in 1886. Most white fighters refused to get into the ring with Jackson. "Gentleman" Jim Corbett was one of the few who not only fought him, but said of him afterwards that Jackson was the most intelligent fighter he ever faced and could beat any heavyweight that Corbett ever fought or ever saw.
Here too of course are boxing legends Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, but also the dozens of outstanding Black boxers who fought from the late 1800s to the end of the 20th century, overcoming their opponents and facing discrimination in an array of forms, from being...

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