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Tom Molineaux

“Moor”

(1784 – 4 August 1818)

Hand-colored etching of Tom Molineaux by and published by Robert Dighton in 1812
[Public Domain via Wikipedia Commons]

 

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Aycock, Colleen, and Mark Scott. 2011. The First Black Boxing Champions: Essays on Fighters of the 1800s to the 1920s. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., Publishers.

Account of Tom Cribb vs Tom Molineaux fight – BoxRec website

“Galway to honor Virginia slave who died in Ireland, America’s first sports star,” Irish Central, July 27, 2018.

Thomas “Tom” Molineaux – The Cyber Boxing Zone Encyclopedia

Tom Molineaux at the International Boxing Hall of Fame

Wiggins, David Kenneth. 2015. African Americans in Sports. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Young, Brian “The Beret.”  “Tom Molineaux: The First African American Boxing Hero,” Ringside Report February 26, 2019.

Tom Molineaux – Wikipedia

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