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George Dixon
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Author : Jason Winders
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2021-09-13
George Dixon written by Jason Winders and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner, 2022 NASSH Book Award (Monograph) On September 6, 1892, a diminutive Black prizefighter brutally dispatched an overmatched white hope in the New Orleans Carnival of Champions boxing tournament. That victory sparked celebrations across Black communities nationwide but fostered unease among sporting fans and officials, delaying public acceptance of mixed-race fighting for half a century. This turn echoed the nation’s disintegrating relations between whites and Blacks and foreshadowed America’s embrace of racial segregation. In this work of sporting and social history we have a biography of Canadian-born, Boston-raised boxer George Dixon (1870–1908), the first Black world champion of any sport and the first Black world boxing champion in any division. George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908 chronicles the life of the most consequential Black athlete of the nineteenth century and details for the first time his Carnival appearance, perhaps the most significant bout involving a Black fighter until Jack Johnson began his reign in 1908. Yet despite his triumphs, Dixon has been lost to history, overshadowed by Black athletes whose activism against white supremacy far exceeded his own. George Dixon reveals the story of a man trapped between the white world he served and the Black world that worshipped him. By ceding control to a manipulative white promoter, Dixon was steered through the white power structure of Gilded Age prizefighting, becoming world famous and one of North America’s richest Black men. Unable to hold on to his wealth, however, and battered by his vices, a depleted Dixon was abandoned by his white supporters just as the rising tide of Jim Crow limited both his prospects and the freedom of Blacks nationwide.
Shadowboxing
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Author : Steven Laffoley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Shadowboxing written by Steven Laffoley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Sports & Recreation categories.
George Dixon was the finest boxer of his generation and arguably among the finest boxers ever. His accomplishments in the ring were extraordinary: the first black boxing champion, the first Canadian boxing champion, the first boxing champion of multiple weight classes, and the first boxing champion to lose regain his title. He defended his title more than any other champion - then or since - and he reportedly fought in an unprecedented 800 bouts. Making these achievements more astonishing was the context within which these achievements were earned: George Dixon publically fought and beat hundreds of white boxers in an age when black men were routinely lynched for simply being black.Boxing historian and Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer once said of Dixon, "For his ounces and inches, there never was a lad his equal. Even in the light of the achievements of John L. Sullivan [the first heavyweight champion in boxing, the critics of his days referred to 'Little Chocolate' [George Dixon as the greatest fighter of all time. I doubt there ever was a pugilist who was as popular during his entire career."Simply put, said Fleischer, "He had everything."Sam Austin, the larger-than-life sports editor at America's first tabloid newspaper, the Police Gazette, described George Dixon as "The Fighter Without a Flaw." Said Austin, "The fact cannot be disputed that the greatest fistic fighter, big or little, that the world has ever known is George Dixon."Still, despite his extraordinary accomplishments, effusive adulation, and spectacular riches, George Dixon died a beggar, in the alcoholic ward of New York's Bellevue Hospital - homeless, forgotten, and alone. And yet, ironically, while George Dixon was being forgotten, his story was becoming a familiar archetype - the tale of a young black man who uses his fists and wits to fight his way against unrelenting challenges to become Champion of the World. He becomes famous, rich, and loved by all. But then he overreaches. He lives the life of the "sport" - he gambles, carouses, and drinks - until he stays in the ring one fight too many.And he loses it all.But George Dixon's story is singularly different. George Dixon followed no one. And for this reason, his story - his triumphs and tragedies as well as his rise and fall - transcends cliché.So who was George Dixon? And what motivated this genuinely modest man, born in Africville, Nova Scotia, to achieve what no other black man had achieved before him? What strength of character earned him, against all odds, true greatness? And what failure of character, in the end, took that greatness away? Before Mohammad Ali and Joe Louis, before Sugar Ray Robinson and Jack Johnson, before Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, before all the great black boxing champions of every age and every weight class, there was George Dixon.He was the first.He was the greatest.And this is his story.
Out Of Birmingham
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Author : James Dixon (VAT specialist)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-08
Out Of Birmingham written by James Dixon (VAT specialist) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08 with Businesspeople categories.
Forster's Elementary Education Act of 1870 introduced compulsory and free education into England for the first time. Mayor, George Dixon played a critical role as the leader of a campaigning group, the Birmingham-based National Education League, in persuading the new Liberal government under Gladstone of the need for action.
Clash Of The Little Giants
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Author : Arne K. Lang
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-09-02
Clash Of The Little Giants written by Arne K. Lang and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-02 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In the late 1890s, when boxing rivaled the popularity of baseball, George Dixon and Terry McGovern were among its most famous practitioners. Their paths first crossed in 1900 in what is widely considered the most significant featherweight bout in history. Both men were fighters who died young under distressing circumstances. Both were products of a burgeoning industrial society and a cult of masculinity, at a time when prizefighting's adherents and opponents were in a constant tug-of-war. This book tells the full story, with a fascinating cast of characters including imperious manager/promoter Tom O'Rourke, World Welterweight Champion Barbados Joe Walcott, and Tammany Hall bigwig Timothy "Big Tim" Sullivan, whose invisible hand made New York the epicenter of boxing in the 1890s.
100 Years At City Road
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Author : Laurence Reading
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-01-01
100 Years At City Road written by Laurence Reading and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with categories.
Leaning On A Column
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Author : George Dixon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
Leaning On A Column written by George Dixon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Journalists categories.
Columnist whose "Washington Scene" appears in newspapers from coast to coast gives us a view of Washington in a less serious vein.
A Voyage Round The World But More Particularly To The North West Coast Of America Performed In 1785 1786 1787 And 1788 In The King George And Queen Charlotte
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Author : George Dixon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1789
A Voyage Round The World But More Particularly To The North West Coast Of America Performed In 1785 1786 1787 And 1788 In The King George And Queen Charlotte written by George Dixon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1789 with categories.
Jack Lynch A Biography
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Author : Dermot Keogh
language : en
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Release Date : 2009-09-04
Jack Lynch A Biography written by Dermot Keogh and has been published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jack Lynch is one of the most important and perhaps most underrated Irish political leaders of the twentieth century. A sportsman who won six All-Ireland medals in a row with Cork, he was also a civil servant and a barrister before being elected to Dáil Éireann in 1948. During his thirty-one years as a parliamentarian, he held the ministries of Education, Industry and Commerce, and Finance before succeeding Seán Lemass as Taoiseach in 1966. Lynch held office during the critical years of the late 1960s and early 1970s when Northern Ireland disintegrated and civil unrest swept through Belfast, Derry and other towns. This precipitated one of the worst crises in the history of the Irish state. Jack Lynch upheld the parliamentary democratic tradition at great personal and political cost, even to the point of fracturing the unity of his government and his party. If you want to know what happened during those terrible years, read this book.
Remarks On The Voyages Of John Meares Esq In A Letter To That Gentleman By George Dixon
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Author : GEORGE. DIXON
language : en
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Remarks On The Voyages Of John Meares Esq In A Letter To That Gentleman By George Dixon written by GEORGE. DIXON and has been published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with categories.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T098957 With a half-title and five final pages of advertisements. London: printed for the author, and sold by John Stockdale; and George Goulding, 1790. 37, [5]p.; 4°
Descendants Of George Dixon
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Author : Glenn Virgil Ramsey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Descendants Of George Dixon written by Glenn Virgil Ramsey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Scotland categories.