My family’s support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out of the South – first to New York, then to Philadelphia, where I found opportunity in the form of a PAL gym and my trainer, Yank Durham. — Joe Frazier

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Mini who’s who:

Joe Frazier : American Athlete
Born:  January 12, 1944
Died:  November 7, 2011