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The World Colored Heavyweight Championship, 1876-1937

The World Colored Heavyweight Championship, 1876-1937

Baker, Mark Allen

Paperback

Biographies GeneralBlack American HistoryBoxing

ISBN10: 1476677654
ISBN13: 9781476677651
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Sep 14 2020
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.90 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

For six decades the World Colored Heavyweight Championship was a useful tool of racial oppression--the existence of the title far more important to the white public than its succession of champions. It took some extraordinary individuals, most notably Jack Johnson, to challenge the color line in the ring, although the title and the black fighters who contended for it continued until the reign of Joe Louis a generation later. This history traces the advent and demise of the Championship, the stories of the 28 professional athletes who won it, and the demarcation of the color line both in and out of the ring.

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