In 1926, Atlanta's Theodore “Tiger” Flowers became the first African-American boxer to win the world middleweight title. The next year, he was dead. More th

More than a Game discusses how African American men and women sought to participate in sport and what that participation meant to them, the African American com

This thesis considers popular attitudes towards black prize fighters as a means of analyzing America's racial climate. Boxers have frequently symbolized wider s

Sports fans have long been fascinated with boxing and the brutal demonstration of physical and psychological conflict. Accounts of the sport appear as far back

During the early years of the 20th century, San Francisco promoters served up boxing's grandest spectacles. On February 22, 1910, a crowd of more than 15,000 br