The two-page spread below comes from an album that contains images of almost 1,100 boxers active in San Francisco ... Francisco Police Department being an early adopter. Sandra Phillips, senior ...

But it also riffed on down-home African American dishes ... After that, he was employed by Joe Louis, a Chicago boxer known as the “Brown Bomber,” en route to a heavyweight championship.

He remained the most influential African American boxer in the early 20th century. His personal defiance of societal norms ...