The First Black Boxing Champions(English, Hardcover, unknown)

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The First Black Boxing Champions(English, Hardcover, unknown) is written by unknown and published by McFarland & Co Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0786449918 (ISBN 10) and 9780786449910 (ISBN 13).

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.