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Surfbat, I appreciate the civility in your responses. At least on my end, I'm learning from our dialogue. I think the topic is very interesting...
Haven't there been many white fighters that have come out and said in public at the time that they would not fight black fighters? It is a...
Didn't know that. Am I wrong that the police stoppage of the Johnson-Burns was due to race?
You mean that police would stop fights between white fighters too? Do you know any examples off-hand? I know that when boxing was illegal there...
No problem at all. I enjoy boxing and researching its history. One more thing with regard Battle Royales, they were a place that many african...
Well, I guess the only concrete example so far is the Johnson-Burns fight where the fight was stopped prematurely by the police to avoid Johnson,...
An example of how race played a role in boxing in the early 1900's cane be seen in GunBoat Smith's chapter in In This Corner...! 42 World...
Boxing was more progressive with regard to race than baseball, but boxing was by no means perfect. I'm sure I'm telling you something you already...
In The Culture of Bruising, Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture, Gerald Early states on page 11 with regard to Jack...
Unfortunately, I don't have Gerald Early's book in front of me, nor Gans'. I'll look at them this weekend and report back. If I recall though, it...
There is utterly no doubt that racism prevailed. I am searching for examples of African American boxers that lost purposefully, or performed below...
In Barney Nagler's "Brown Bombers," a book on Joe Louis, he says on page 25, "[a] black heavyweight could not get many matches, and when he did,...
Is Oquendo facing Mansour next? That's the rumor. Good fight, if he is.
