Female Pubilist issuing challenges to one another

Source/written by:

CATHY VAN INGEN, PhD
Department  of Kinesiology Brock University
“Seeing What Frames Our Seeing”:
Seeking Histories on Early Black Female Boxers 
EXCERPT :  “Seeing What Frames Our Seeing”: Seeking Histories on Early Black

In 1897, the black newspaper, the Richmond Planet reported in a section devoted to church news and morality, that female pugilists were issuing challenges to one another and enter- ing into combat.67  Another article from the same paper claims that as one black female pugilist was fighting in the ring she had kept her “little baby suspended in a basket from the ceiling.”68

Excerpt from Van Ingen’s research
No exact month/but year 1897