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| National Police Gazette, 14-October-1893 |
By the late Nineteenth Century, Jim Crow laws prevented African-American boxers from fighting white boxers. Tom Molineaux was an American who did most of his fighting in Britain and Ireland. Peter Jackson was born in the Caribbean. He settled in Australia, where he became a boxer. He fought in the US and Britain. He tried to fight heavyweight champ John L Sullivan, but Sullivan refused to fight a black man.
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