Why Did Many People See the Fight Between Joe Louis

question 49

Multiple Choice

Why did many people see the fight between Joe Louis and Italian Primo Carnera as so important in 1935?

• A) Whites claimed that Carnera's victory would mean that whites were better than blacks.
• B) The fight had political meaning, as it occurred when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was about to invade Ethiopia.
• C) It was the last interracial boxing match until the 1980s.
• D) It was fought in the South, which had never allowed an interracial fight until that point.

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