![]() ![]() ![]() He did well, surviving the increasingly tough eliminations. I was gangling and tall, but I wasn't very good at it - too awkward.) In the fall of that year, Philbert entered the amateur bouts that were held in Lansing's Prudden Auditorium. My brother Philbert, who had already become a pretty good boxer in school, was no exception. Every Negro boy old enough to walk wanted to be the next Brown Bomber. And all the Negroes in Lansing, like Negroes everywhere, went wildly happy with the greatest celebration of race pride our generation had ever known. Braddock to become the heavy-weight champion of the world. On June twenty-seventh of that year, nineteen thirty-seven, Joe Louis knocked out James J.
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