| 词条 | Joseph Dorsey Jr. |
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|name= Joseph Dorsey Jr. |nationality= American |image= |caption= |imagesize= |realname= Joseph Dorsey Jr. |nickname= Joe |height= |weight=Light heavyweight |reach= |birth_date= {{Birth date|1935|1|10}} |birth_place= New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|2004|10|20|1935|1|10|mf=y}} |death_place= |style= |total= 35 |wins= 29 |KO= Unknown |losses= 6 |draws= 0 |no contests= 0 }}Joseph "Joe" Dorsey Jr. (January 10, 1935 to October 20, 2004) was an American professional boxer, ending with a 29-6 record, who won a court case in the 1950s against Louisiana's law banning interracial boxing matches.[1] The New Orleans-born Dorsey began boxing at 16 and retired from the ring at age 31.[2] CareerBoxing in New Orleans, a hotbed of enthusiasm for the sport, was segregated as early as 1892, when a black boxer named George Dixon beat his Irish challenger, Jack Skelly. By contrast, Louisiana state boxing officials didn't officially segregate the sport until 1950. In 1950, Governor Earl Long entrenched and widened the segregation policy, signing a law banning "dancing, social functions, entertainments, athletic training, games, sports or contests and other such activities involving personal and social contacts in which the participants or contestants are members of the White and Negro races." Dorsey, a 7th Ward resident who was light-skinned but would not pass for white, sued the state and its Louisiana State Athletic Commission for the right to take the ring with white fighters on July 28, 1955. The New Orleans' major newspaper, The Times-Picayune, buried the story. In November 1958, a three-judge federal court in New Orleans found both the Louisiana law and the athletic commission's own rule against interracial bouts unconstitutional. Writing the opinion, Judge John Minor Wisdom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the Louisiana law was "unconstitutional on its face in that separation of Negroes and whites based solely on their being Negroes and whites is a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States," and that segregated boxing matches were no exception.[3] Louisiana appealed the ruling but the ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court in May 1959. The decision officially ended segregated athletic competition in the state, although it did not extend to the seating at sporting events, which remained segregated after the decision.[4] Dorsey retired from boxing not long after filing the lawsuit, partly because it was difficult for him to allowed in boxing matches because he had been blacklisted, thanks to his part in boxing's desegregation. Dorsey worked nearly four decades as a longshoreman, retiring in 1997, after leaving boxing. Dorsey died October 20, 2004 from cancer. Dorsey's family survivors as of 2004 include his wife, Evelyn, and four sons and a daughter. References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/steveknopper/how-joe-dorsey-knocked-out-segregation|title=Joe Dorsey's Big Fight: How An Unknown Boxer Knocked Out Segregation In Louisiana|publisher=Buzzfeed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dorsey, Joseph Jr}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/06/how_boxing-great_joe_dorsey_de.html|title=How boxing great Joe Dorsey desegregated sports and entertainment in New Orleans (Buzzfeed)|publisher=}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Dorsey v. State Athletic Commission, 168 F. Supp. 149 (E.D. La. 1958)|url=http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/168/149/1981686/|website=Justia Law|accessdate=7 August 2017|language=en}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/24/local/me-passings24.2|title=Joseph Dorsey Jr., 69; Won Case Against Ban on Interracial Boxing|first1=From Times|last1=Staff|first2=Wire|last2=Reports|date=24 October 2004|publisher=|via=LA Times}} 5 : 1935 births|2004 deaths|Boxers from Louisiana|American male boxers|African-American boxers |
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