-
The public celebration of his claimed Jewishness dated back to his fight in 1933 against a German, Max Schmeling.
ECONOMIST: Professional boxing
-
However there had been doubts the fight would happen after Farr came under pressure from the British Boxing Board of Control to instead fight German boxer, Max Schmeling.
BBC: Tommy Farr: Boxer who fought his way out of pits
-
It was co-written by myself and a Detroit journalist friend, Jon Pepper, as a specific look at a 1930s span when Louis lost to the popular Max Schmeling to whites' delight, only to transform into a red-white-and-blue hero in their eyes, triumphing in the rematch against a German example of so-called white supremacy.
CNN: The Jackie Robinson biopic and me