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Lou Moore is a professor, author, and podcaster who studies the intersections of race and sports. He explores topics such as boxing, civil rights, Negro League baseball, and the Black quarterback in his books and lectures.
Dec 13, 2023 · Louis Moore’s I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood is the perfect corrective against that risk, a helpful reminder of the extreme hardships so many prizefighters have had to endure. In his meticulously researched book, Moore presents a lively portrait of the boxing landscape at the turn of the twentieth century, but ...
Feb 18, 2018 · In I Fight for a Living, Louis Moore goes beyond the headlines to not just shine light on forgotten fighters like Langford and resurrect lost ones such as Henry Woodson, C.A.C. Smith, Billy Wilson or McHenry Johnson, but explain their meaning in all the complexity of the fin de siècle.
Louis Moore examines how African American fighters asserted their manhood and challenged white supremacy in boxing from 1880 to 1915. The book explores the life stories, struggles, and achievements of black prizefighters in a racist America.
Learn about the history of Negro League Baseball from Professor Louis Moore, a historian and author. He teaches online courses on sports and race at Grand Valley State University.
Louis Moore is an American historian. He is a professor of history at Grand Valley State University. He studies African American History, Civil Rights, and the history of sport, particularly the connections between race and sports in American history.
Sep 11, 2017 · Louis Moore draws on the life stories of African American fighters active from 1880 to 1915 to explore working-class black manhood. As he details, boxers bought...
