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- By: TJ Torak and Logan Ryer
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- Born in Weymouth Nova Scotia .
- Went to Boston at age 14 to seek work.
- Started to box at age 31.
- Sam won 200 of his 314 matches.
- Langford went blind and died in 1956 at age 72.
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- Born March 4,1886 in Weymouth N.S.
- Died January 12 1956 in Boston
- Sam Langford, Walter Langford, Sophia Langford, Annie M. Langford, Robert
Amos Langford, Ellen May Langford, Charles Joseph Langford were children
of charlotte Robart and Robert Langford.
- Sam Langford did not go to school.
- He ran away from home and got involved in manual labor.
- Sam often got in fights.
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- Sam Langford fought in 314 fights. He won 200 fights 130 of those fights
he won by knock outs. He lost 47 fights and tied 46 fights. Sam Langford
was inducted into the World Boxing Hall of Fame in 1955
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- Logan: I thought he was important because he was one of the first
African American to box.
- TJ: I think Sam Langford is important because he kept boxing although he
was often discriminated.
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- Blackpast.org picture on slide 2
- http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/sam-langford-history-s-forgotten-boxer
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