Battling Siki: A Tale of Ring Fixes, Race, and Murder in the 1920s

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Battling Siki Battling Siki (1887a1925) was once one of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and was written about by a host of great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest Hemingway. Peter Bensonas lively biography of the first African to win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of sports, race, colonialism, and... Full description