Tiger Flowers

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 : 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 : Andrew M. Kaye
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820329109
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pussycat of Prizefighting written by Andrew M. Kaye and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 than an account of Flowers's remarkable achievements, the book is a penetrating analysis of the cultural and historical currents that defined the terms of Flowers's success. Through the prism of prizefighting, the author reveals the personal cost African-Americans faced as they attempted to earn black respect while escaping white hostility.

Author : Andrew M. Kaye
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082032910X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pussycat of Prizefighting written by Andrew M. Kaye and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 than an account of Flowers's remarkable achievements, the book is a penetrating analysis of the cultural and historical currents that defined the terms of Flowers's success. Through the prism of prizefighting, the author reveals the personal cost African-Americans faced as they attempted to earn black respect while escaping white hostility.

Author : Patricia Quinlan
Publisher : Lester Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781895555585
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tiger Flowers written by Patricia Quinlan and published by Lester Pub.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 34 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 : Patrick B. Miller
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028205
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unlevel Playing Field written by Patrick B. Miller and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of black participation in sports since slavery reveals a checkered history of prejudice and cultural bias that have plagued American sports from the beginning.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Author : Michael G. Cooke
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300036244
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century written by Michael G. Cooke and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines works by African American writers

Author : R. Baxter Miller
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870495908
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Black American Poets Between Worlds, 1940-1960 written by R. Baxter Miller and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume appraises distinguished black poets whose careers began to flower between the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, a period of militant integration, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, a decade of militant separatism. Most of these writers were children of the Renaissance, then young adults during World War II, and finally middle-aged artists during the Korean conflict. The poets examined include Melvin Tolson, Robert Hayden, Dudley Randall, Margaret Esse Danner, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks. The interpretive focus shifts from characterization and stylistic evolution to dialectic voices, prophecy, attitude toward the opposite sex, and the theme of recreation. As editor Miller notes, the poets balance mimetic and apocalyptic theories of literature. In Freudian terms they play id against superego; in Derridean terms they reconstruct ethical and phenomenological values aesthetically. Through ballad, sonnet, and free verse, they are the poets of memory, protest, tradition, and cultural celebration"--Book jacket.

Author : Herman Mason, Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738567105
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Atlanta in the Roaring Twenties written by Herman Mason, Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1997-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before it came to prominence as the model city of the New South, as well as earning the title "the new Motown," Atlanta was a hotbed of entertainment, business, and civic life for African Americans. At the same time that Harlem was undergoing its acclaimed renaissance, Atlanta could boast of excellent colleges, a thriving social environment, and an entertainment scene that could rival those of much larger cities. From Auburn Avenue, the hub of the city's African-American activity, a spirit of vibrant change and excitement radiated out to reach people across America.