Bill Gallo of the Daily News, a sports cartoonist and columnist, is old enough to have been a Marine in WWII, is a boxing fan, and is in contact with old boxers and boxing fans.  He might take an interest in the project.  On the other hand, I have written him on I think 2 occasions regarding topics I thought he might take an interest in, and have gotten no reply.  His email address is [log in to unmask]

The Amsterdam News might be willing to publish a letter about the project.

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African
Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998.

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Turtell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:28 pm
Subject: Re: Max Schmeling docuemntary

> Someone at the Schomberg may know some scholars who have studied
> Joe Louis
> and he should also just make cold calls to. There's a wonderful
> man named
> Gerald Early who's written about boxing and he may have some info:
>
> Early, Gerald
> [Gerald Early received his B.A. from the University of
> Pennsylvania in 1974,
> and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1980 and 1982.
> He teaches
> at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, where he is the
> Merle Kling
> Professor of Modern Letters and Director of the African and Afro-
> AmericanStudies Program.
>
> Early's publications include Tuxedo Junction: Essays on American
> Culture(1990), My Soul's High Song (editor, 1991), The Selected
> Writings of Countee
> Cullen (editor, 1991), The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Literature,
> Prizefighting, and Modern American Culture (1991)
>
> Also, at Princeton, Joyce Carol Oates (of all people) is a huge
> boxing fan
> and she may be a contact for others. Finally, why not just make
> some cold
> calls varoius gyms where the boxers train around NYC? Gleason's in
> Brooklyn(where Mike Tyson used to train) may have a few old guys
> around who know
> people who remember the Louis fights. And try getting in touch with
> promoters, like Don King--if you can't get hold of him try the law
> firm that
> represents him: SIdley & Austin (at least they did in the 1980's).
>
> I hope all this isn't numbingly obvious.
>
> Best,
>
>
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