Wakefeld-based White Rose Boxing Club has enjoyed more success with two of its boxers being crowned Yorkshire champions and ...

Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German boxer Max Schmeling before their ... a lot of change in race relations in America... White Americans -- even while some of them still were ...

Despite Louis' public image campaign, millions of whites rooted against him, and awaited the "Great White Hope" who would claim boxing honors for their own race. Writer Jack Newfield says ...