For six decades the World Colored Heavyweight Championship was a useful tool of racial oppression--the existence of the title far more important to the white pu

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This is the story of the lineage of Boxing's World Heavyweight Championship from 1882-1915 and how it explains a cultural attitude toward race and identity in t