Boxing has given the African-American athlete an opportunity to catch the national imagination through physical prowess. The earlier boxers, such as Jack Johnson and Joe Louis, stood as symbols of black equality if not superiority. Even before Johnson there were super black boxers. This book tells their stories and looks at their records. The text and reference materials for this book were taken from the three-volume set, A Hard Road to Glory,and combined into this single volume.
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Arthur Ashe was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, and died in New York City on February 6, 1993. In his twenty-year tennis career Ashe won some of the most coveted singles championship games; Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the World Cup Team Finals. He was a member of the U.S. Davis Cup Team from 1963 to 1970, and in 1975, 1976, and 1978; as its captain, he led the team to victories in 1981 and 1982. He was a member of the U.S. World Cup Team from 1970 to 1976, and in 1979.
On April 16, 1980, after quadruple bypass surgury, Arthur Ashe retired from professional tennis. He became National Campaign Chairman for the American Heart Association and the only nonmedical member of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Advisory Council.
He contracted the HIV virus from a blood transfusion after a second bypass operation in 1983. Upon discovering this, Ashe exhibited his perennial quality of action without acrimony and founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS, He succumbed to the disease in February 1993.
Ashe was married to professional photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, the author of Viewifnders: Black Women Photographers. They lived in New York City with their daughter, Camera.
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This review is from: A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete: Boxing (Paperback)
The book is a historical sketch, informative and useful. A good introduction to the subject matter.
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sadly, a shoddy work,
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This review is from: A Hard Road To Glory: A History Of The African American Athlete: Baseball (Paperback)
Arthur Ashe made many fine contributions to America, but this isn't one of them. Not up to the standard set by the other books in the series.
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No sport has had as profound an effect on the lives of African-Americans as boxing. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
world junior middleweight title, world lightweight title, world welterweight title, vacant world title, world featherweight title, world middleweight title, world heavyweight title, light heavyweight title, bantamweight title, lightweight crown, welterweight crown, lower weight classes, title bout, lightweight champion, black champions, black fighter, fifteen rounds, heavyweight division, black boxers, round knockout, light heavyweight champion, amateur career, elimination tournament, welterweight champion, heavyweight crown Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Golden Gloves, United States, Las Vegas, Madison Square Garden, Sugar Ray Robinson, New Orleans, Joe Frazier, Archie Moore, Floyd Patterson, Henry Armstrong, Joe Walcott, New Jersey, Cassius Clay, Larry Holmes, World War, Ray Leonard, Beau Jack, Jim Jeffries, Nat Fleischer, Tom Molineaux, George Foreman New!
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world junior middleweight title, world lightweight title, world welterweight title, vacant world title, world featherweight title, world middleweight title, world heavyweight title, light heavyweight title, bantamweight title, lightweight crown, welterweight crown, lower weight classes, title bout, lightweight champion, black champions, black fighter, fifteen rounds, heavyweight division, black boxers, round knockout, light heavyweight champion, amateur career, elimination tournament, welterweight champion, heavyweight crown Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Golden Gloves, United States, Las Vegas, Madison Square Garden, Sugar Ray Robinson, New Orleans, Joe Frazier, Archie Moore, Floyd Patterson, Henry Armstrong, Joe Walcott, New Jersey, Cassius Clay, Larry Holmes, World War, Ray Leonard, Beau Jack, Jim Jeffries, Nat Fleischer, Tom Molineaux, George Foreman New!
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- IN THIS CORNER by Peter heller on page 44, and page 75
- What Black People Should Do Now by Ralph Wiley in Front Matter
- Washington, D.C. by Bill Harris in Back Matter
- Days of Grace by Arthur Ashe in Back Cover
- A Fistful of Sugar: The Sugar Ray Leonard Story by Alan Goldstein on page 76
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