A Tiger Rose Out Of Georgia Tiger Flowers Champion Of The World

Author : Bob Mee
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tiger Rose Out of Georgia: Tiger Flowers - Champion of the World written by Bob Mee and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore 'Tiger' Flowers rose above the racist bigotry of the Deep South to become the first African-American middleweight champion of the world. To do it, this Christian family man beat a boxing legend, Harry Greb, in the first of the great sporting cathedrals, Madison Square Garden. It was a victory that stunned the sporting world and made him a household name. Yet within a year he had lost his championship on a decision some said was influenced by Al Capone - and within another year was dead, following a seemingly innocuous operation, in the clinic of a controversial surgeon, to remove lumps and scars above his eyes. Was his death, at the age of 34, an accident, a result of negligence, or something more sinister? And what was behind his white manager's attempt to throw Tiger's widow into an asylum and their daughter into an orphanage? Flowers' inspiring, harrowing story, set against an horrific backdrop of lynchings and routine prejudice, is largely forgotten now but he paved the way for black sporting heroes like Joe Louis, Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson.

Author : Bob Mee (Sportswriter)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tiger Rose Out of Georgia written by Bob Mee (Sportswriter) and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hauser
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286833
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hurting Sport written by Thomas Hauser and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Hurting Sport marks the tenth annual volume of Thomas Hauser’s boxing articles to be published by the University of Arkansas Press. Every year, readers, sportswriters, and critics alike look forward to these collections. In 2014, Booklist observed, “This annual series detailing the year in boxing should be a highlight, not only for fans of the sport but also for those who appreciate journalistic acumen and stylish prose.” Other sportswriters have called Hauser “the dean of fightwriters” (TheSweetScience.com) and “our craft’s most celebrated practitioner” (15Rounds.com). His readers call him one of the last real champions in boxing and one of the very best who has ever written about this sport. A Hurting Sport continues this tradition of excellence with a behind-the-scenes recounting of 2014’s biggest fights, a look at Floyd Mayweather’s conduct in and out of the ring, analysis of fight impresario Al Haymon’s burgeoning empire, and much more.

Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623760100
Total Pages : 669 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Georgia, a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1940 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: compiled and written by workers of the Writer®s program of the Work Projects Administration in the state of Georgia ; sponsored by the Georgia Board of Education.

Author : Ross D. Brown
Publisher : Black Classic Press
ISBN 13 : 9781580730181
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afro-American World Almanac written by Ross D. Brown and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Afro-American World Almanac, first published in 1943, when white publishers exhibited little interest in Black History, is Ross Brown's effort to document Black achievements. More a notebook than an almanac, this work is a wonderful time capsule to the past, stuffed with well-known and little-known tidbits about Blacks. We find information on famous kings and queens of Africa, great people in the Holy Bible, and even information on the recently verified Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemmings relationship. Often the events captured do not follow a chronological timeline and the documentation is at times sketchy--but they are fun to read anyway. Brown has a way of blending the ancient with the modern. He, after all, makes no pretense about being a historian. Brown is a layman, and he compiled this mass of data for other lay people. He wrote and published this book for the "reader on the street," successfully conveying a sense of passion and urgency that are often boiled out of so called "scholarly" histories.

Author : Patricia Quinlan
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550051391
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiger Flowers written by Patricia Quinlan and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his uncle, Michael, dies of AIDS, Joel's dreams and thoughts of Michael keep his memory alive.

Author : Harold S. Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Pseudonyms and Personal Nicknames written by Harold S. Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Everett Jenkins, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645038X
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pan-African Chronology III written by Everett Jenkins, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of the Pan-African Chronology set covers 1914 through 1929, a time of two seminal events: World War I and the Black Awakening. In World War I, people of African descent fought for both sides, earning distinction on the battlefields of France as well as in the jungles and deserts of Africa. The “Black Awakening,” a period from 1919 through 1929, marked the dawning of global awareness of the contributions of African people to the culture of the world. The book is arranged by year and events of each year are grouped by region. It also has two special biographical divisions for W.E.B. DuBois and Marcus Garvey.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Author : R. J. Smith
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 1592407420
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The One written by R. J. Smith and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the life and achievements of the "Godfather of Soul" covers his unconventional youth in a segregated South, his complicated family life, and his work as a civil rights advocate and entrepreneur.