Aycock, Colleen & Scott Mark (Editors) – The First Black Boxing Champions. Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920. EX-LIBRARY

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Aycock, Colleen & Scott Mark (Editors) – The First Black Boxing Champions. Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920. 2011 1st edition. EX-LIBRARY discard. There’s a ‘Discarded’ stamp on the blank frontispiece and wrinkling to the last third of the pages and top left corner of the back cover, most likely from moisture at some point. Good reading copy.

“The volume presents 15 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 188s; 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 drawing, 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.”