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by W. K. Stratton

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  Daugherty, Duffy, [>]

  Davis, Miles, [>]

  Deauville Hotel, Miami, FP training at, [>]

  Dee, Ruby, [>]

  Delaney, Samuel J., [>], [>]

  Dempsey, Jack, [>], [>], [>]

  Johansson compared with, [>]

  racist glorification of, [>]

  vs. Tunney, [>]

  as unable to regain title, [>], [>]

  DeWolf, L. Harold, [>]–[>]

  Downtown Athletic Club, [>]

  Du Bois, W. E. B., [>]

  DuMont Television Network, [>]

  Duncan, John, [>]

  Dundee, Angelo, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Dundee, Chris, [>]

  Durelle, Yvon, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Durslag, Melvin, [>]

  Dynamite Payne, [>]

  Early, Gerald, [>]

  Eastern Parkway Arena, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Ebony magazine

  FP as one of “100 Most Influential Negroes,” [>]

  on FP victory over Johansson, [>]

  Eckstine, Billy, [>]–[>], [>]

  Edward J. Neil Memorial Plaque, [>]

  Egypt, FP’s trip to, [>]–[>]

  Elgin, Illinois, FP trains at, [>]

  Ellis, Jimmy, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Ellison, Ralph, quoted, [>]

  Empire Sports Club, [>]

  Esquire magazine, [>]

  article on Ali in, [>]

  FP profile in, [>], [>]

  Mailer covers Patterson-Liston fight for, [>]

  Evans, Clifford, [>]

  Evers, Medgar, [>]

  Far Rockaway, Queens, [>]

  Faubus, Orval, [>]

  Fear, D’Amato on, [>]

  Feature Sports Inc., [>]

  Ferdinand, Esau, [>], [>]

  Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin), [>]

  Fisher, Eddie, [>]

  Fitzsimmons, Bob, [>]

  Fleischer, Nat, [>], [>]

  Flood, Curt, [>]

  Florio, Dan, [>]–[>], [>]

  death of, [>]

  and first Johansson fight, [>], [>]

  in entourage, [>]

  and FP’s depression in aftermath, [>]

  on FP vs. Marciano, [>]–[>]

  and FP’s training for Moore fight, [>]

  and FP’s training for second Johansson fight, [>], [>], [>]

  and Moore fight celebration, [>]

  and prejudice on southern tour, [>]

  at third Johansson fight, [>]

  on trip to Egypt, [>]

  Florio, Nick, [>], [>], [>]

  Floyd Patterson Cup, [>]

  Floyd Patterson Enterprises, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Floyd Patterson House, [>], [>]

  Floyd Patterson Trophy, [>]

  Folley, Zora

  Bonavena’s victory over, [>]

  as candidate for FP bout, [>]

  as contender, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Cooper’s victory over, [>], [>]

  Johansson contrasted to, [>]

  Machen fight, [>]

  Patterson-Harris fight as overshadowing, [>]

  in tournament of contenders, [>]

  Foreman, George, FP compared with, [>]

  Fort Smith, Arkansas

  FP confronts racism in, [>]–[>]

  FP supports integration leader in, [>], [>]

  “Fourth of July Kid” (Archie Moore ring name), [>]

  Fowler, Ernest, [>]

  FP. See Patterson, Floyd

  “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” (Talese), [>]

  Frazier, Joe

  and Ali on FP, [>]–[>]

  Ali loses to, [>]

  and Bonavena, [>]

  and D’Amato on Mathis, [>]

  FP compared with, [>]

  FP’s desire to fight, [>]

  in Olympics, [>]

  at Patterson-Quarry fight, [>]

  as proposed match for Ellis, [>]

  and tournament of contenders, [>]

  Freedom Summer (1964), [>]

  Fugazy, Bill, [>], [>], [>]

  Fuller, Peter Davenport, [>]

  Gallico, Paul, [>]

  Gannon, Joe, [>]

  Gans, Joe, [>]

  Garvey, Marcus, [>]

  Gaston Motel, Birmingham

  bombing of, [>]

  FP and Jackie Robinson stay at, [>]

  Gavilán, Kid, [>]

  “Gazelle punch,” [>], [>], [>] n.2 (ch.3)

  Geis, Bernard, [>]–[>], [>]

  Ghana, FP’s ceremonial robe from, [>]

  Gibson, John, [>]

  Gladson, Gordon, [>]

  Gleason, Jackie, [>]–[>]

  Godbold, Eddie, [>], [>]

  Golden Gloves championship

  FP’s son Tracy wins, [>]–[>]

  Rademacher winner in, [>]

  Golden Gloves championship (1951)

  FP in, [>]–[>]

  Johansson in, [>]

  Golden Gloves championship (1952), FP in, [>]–[>]

  Goldman, Charley, [>]

  Goldstein, Ruby, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Grady, Sandy, [>]

  Gramercy Gym, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Gramercy Park Hotel, FP given job at, [>], [>]

  Grant, Don, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Grayson, Harry, [>], [>]

  Graziano, Rocky, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Great Migration of black Americans, [>], [>]

  Great Neck, FP home in, [>]

  “Great white hope,” [>], [>]

  Green, Charley, [>]

  Greenwood Lake, NY, FP’s training at, [>]

  Gross, Jane, [>]

  Gross, Milton, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Grossinger’s, Johansson training at, [>]–[>], [>]

  Guerrero, Richard, [>], [>]

  Haley, Alex, [>]

  Hamill, Pete, [>], [>], [>]

  Ham Pounder, [>]

  Hanson, Ted, [>]

  Harder They Fall, The (Schulberg), [>]

  Harris, Big Henry, [>], [>], [>]

  Harris, Charlie, [>]

  Harris, Maurice, [>]

  Harris, Roy “Cut ’n Shoot,” [>]–[>]

  and FP as easy knockdown, [>]

  FP fights, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  and Black, [>]

  social conflict symbolized in, [>]–[>]

  and Johansson, [>]

  Liston fights, [>]

  as possible contender, [>]

  Harris, Tracy (adopted son of FP), [>]–[>]

  Harrison, Tommy, [>]–[>], [>]

  Hauser, Thomas, [>]–[>]

  Heinz, W. C., [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Helfand, Julius, [>]

  Helsinki, FP at Olympics in, [>]

  Herring, Tod, [>]

  Hicks, Sandra Elizabeth, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and FP’s conversion to Roman Catholicism, [>]–[>]

  marries FP, [>]

  See also Patterson, Sandra Hicks

  Hidden Well Ranch, FP training at, [>], [>]

  Highland Mills, FP training camp in, [>], [>], [>]

  Hill, Richie, [>]

  Hiss, Alger, and Cohn, [>]

  Hodge, Danny, [>] n.19

  Holden, William, [>]–[>]

  Holman, Johnny, [>]

  Holmes, Larry, [>]

  Hunt, Lamar, [>]

  Hurley, Deacon Jack, [>], [>]

  Huston, John, [>]

  Hyde Park (Roosevelt estate), [>]

  Illingworth, Montieth, [>]

  International Boxing Club (IBC), [>], [>], [>]

  and D’Amato, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  battles with impoverishing, [>]

  and fights outside New York, [>]

  and Weill, [>]

  demise of, [>]

  Marciano controlled by, [>], [>]

  and Joey Maxim, [>]–[>]

  and Archie Moore guarantee, [>]

  and Vitale, [>]

  International Boxing Gu
ild, [>]

  Invisible Man (Ellison), [>]

  Jackson, Tommy “Hurricane,” [>], [>] n.6

  as black heavyweight contender, [>]–[>]

  death of, [>], [>] n.6

  as defeated contender, [>]

  FP fights (first), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  and race relations, [>]–[>]

  FP fights (second), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  as sparring partner, [>]

  Jacobs, Jim, [>], [>]

  Jeffries, Jim, [>], [>]

  Johansson, Ingemar, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and aftermath of first FP fight, [>]–[>]

  as contender, [>]

  death of, [>]

  as example for FP, [>], [>]

  fights FP (first), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  FP’s training for, [>]

  Louis’s analysis of, [>]

  fights FP (second), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  and Rosensohn, [>]

  training for, [>]–[>]

  fights FP (third), [>]–[>], [>]

  training camp for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  writers’ criticisms of, [>]–[>]

  and FP as easy knockdown, [>]

  FP’s hatred of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  glorification of in U.S., [>]–[>], [>]

  Machen upset by, [>], [>]

  Archie Moore’s critique of, [>]–[>]

  on Patterson-Liston fight, [>]

  at Patterson-London fight, [>], [>]

  training routine of, [>]–[>]

  for third FP fight, [>]–[>]

  John XXIII (pope), [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Johnson, Charley, [>]

  Johnson, Jack, [>], [>], [>]

  Johnson, Lester, [>]

  Johnson, Walter (Wiltwyck director), [>], [>]

  Johnson, Willie, [>]

  Johnston, Charley, [>], [>]

  Jones, Doug, [>]

  Jones, LeRoi, [>]

  Jones, Washington, [>]

  Kahn, Irving B., [>], [>]

  Kane, Gregory, [>]

  Kane, Martin, [>]

  Karadag, Ehsan, [>], [>], [>]

  Kearns, Jack, [>]

  Kefauver, Estes, and Kefauver Committee

  and D’Amato, [>]–[>]

  and Liston as challenger, [>]

  Keiter, Les, [>]

  Kennedy, Jacqueline, [>]

  Kennedy, John F., [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  assassination of, [>]

  Kennedy, Robert, [>], [>]

  Kid Chocolate, [>], [>]

  Kid Galahad (film), [>]

  Kid Pocahontas, [>]

  King, A. D., [>], [>]

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., [>], [>], [>]

  assassination of, [>]

  “I Have a Dream” speech of, [>]

  King of the World (Remnick), [>]

  Kram, Mark, [>], [>], [>]

  Kramer, Edith, [>]

  Krim, Seymour, [>]

  Ku Klux Klan, in East Texas, [>]

  Ladd, Alan, [>]

  LaMotta, Jake, [>], [>]

  Langhart, Janet, [>]

  Lardner, John, [>], [>]

  Las Vegas

  Patterson-Ali fight in, [>], [>]

  Patterson-Liston fight in, [>]–[>], [>]

  Lavelle, Frank, [>], [>]

  FP discovered by, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  in FP’s entourage, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  FP’s relationship with curtailed under D’Amato, [>], [>]–[>]

  Lee, Norvel, [>]

  Lence, Emil, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Leonard, Benny, [>], [>]

  Lewiston, Maine, Ali-Liston fight in, [>]

  Liebling, A. J., [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Life magazine, on Patterson-Ali fight, [>]–[>]

  Lipsyte, Robert, [>]

  Liston, Charles “Sonny,” [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Ali’s defeat of (first), [>]

  Ali’s defeat of (second), [>]–[>]

  in Ali’s/FP’s plans for exhibition tour, [>]

  Baldwin on, [>]–[>]

  death of, [>]

  FP compared with, [>]

  and FP as easy knockdown, [>]

  FP fights (first), [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  FP’s escape after, [>]–[>]

  and FP’s integrity (Kane), [>]

  JFK’s concern over, [>]

  journalists’ coverage of, [>]–[>]

  postfight press conference, [>]

  predictions of FP win, [>]–[>]

  FP fights (second), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  FP’s defeatist attitude in, [>]

  and FP’s downslide, [>]–[>]

  FP’s feelings in aftermath of, [>]–[>]

  FP’s public pronouncements on, [>], [>]

  FP’s training, [>]–[>]

  in Las Vegas, [>]–[>], [>]

  FP’s criticism of, [>]

  Kennedys opposed to, [>]

  and ties to organized crime, [>], [>]

  Machen fights, [>]

  New York boxing license denied to, [>]

  Shrake interview with, [>]

  in tournament of contenders, [>]

  Liston, Helen, [>]

  Liston, Tobe, [>]

  London, Brian

  Cooper’s victory over, [>]

  FP fights, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Clay watches, [>]

  and D’Amato, [>]–[>], [>]

  and Johansson on FP, [>]

  in Archie Moore’s letter, [>]

  Pastrano knocked out by, [>]

  London, Jack, [>]

  London, Patterson-Cooper fight in, [>]

  “Long Ride Home, The” (Gross column), [>]

  Lonsdale Belts, [>], [>] n.22

  Lord, Doug, [>]

  Los Angeles

  FP on tour in, [>]–[>]

  Patterson-Quarry fights in, [>], [>]

  Watts riots in, [>]–[>]

  Los Angeles Wrigley Field, [>] n.9

  Patterson-Harris fight at, [>], [>], [>]

  “Loser, The” (profile of FP in Esquire), [>]

  Loughran, Tommy, [>], [>]

  Louis, Joe, [>], [>], [>]

  as African-American hero, [>], [>]

  FP compared/contrasted with, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  as FP consultant, [>]–[>]

  as FP hero, [>], [>]

  FP presented trophy by, [>]–[>]

  Big Henry Harris as proposed opponent for, [>]

  and Liston, [>]

  and Madison Square Garden, [>]

  and name change, [>] n.40

  in Nixon’s conversation, [>]

  and racial prejudice, [>]

  vs. Schmeling, [>]

  and self-managership, [>]

  title defenses of, [>]

  as unable to regain title, [>]

  and weight, [>]

  vs. white challengers, [>]–[>]

  Lundgren, Birgit, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Lynching

  in East Texas, [>]

  of Emmett Till, [>], [>]

  Machen, Eddie, [>], [>]–[>]

  as contender, [>], [>], [>]

  death of, [>]

  FP fights, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Johansson’s celebrity contrasted with, [>]

  Quarry beaten by, [>]

  Madame Bey’s (training camp), [>]–[>]

  Madison Square Garden, [>], [>] n.32

  Ali-Frazier fight in, [>], [>] n.32

  Golden Gloves tournament in, [>], [>], [>]

  as IBC-controlled, [>], [>], [>]

  Norris family majority interest in, [>]

  Patterson-Ali fight in, [>]

  Patterson-Bonavena fight in, [>]

  Patterson-Chuvalo fight in, [>], [>]

  Paterson-Jackson fight in, [>], [>]

  Patterson-McBride fight in, [>]

  Madrid, Spain, FP escapes to, [>]

  Madriguera, Enric, [>

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