Featured Book: 

Louis Moore, I Fight for a Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood, 1880-1915. University of Illinois, 2017. (Purchase)

Other Sources:

Collen Aycock and Mark Scott.  Joe Gans: A Biography of the First African American World Boxing Champion. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2008. (Purchase)

William Gildea. The Longest Fight: In the Ring with Joe Gans, Boxing's first African American Champion. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. (Purchase).

Steven Laffoley. Shadow Boxing: The Rise and Fall of George Dixon.  Pottersfield Press, 2012. (Purchase)

Jason Winders. George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing’s First Black World Champion, 1870–1908. University of Arkansas Press, 2021. (Purchase).