Blood Brothers (59 page)

Wilson, Peter,
119
,
121
,
122
,
123

Winchell, Walter,
94

Windom, Alice,
248
,
251

Wolcott, Louis Eugene,
15
.
See also
Farrakhan, Louis
;
Louis X

Wolfe, Tom,
125
,
129–130

World Boxing Association (WBA),
225–226
,
238

World War II,
3
,
47
,
73
,
76
,
216
,
306

Worthy, William,
35

Wright, Richard,
248

X, Malcolm.
See
Malcolm X

Yacub,
18
,
19
,
134

Yorty, Sam,
63

Young, Andrew,
300

Young, Dick,
94
,
224

Young, Doc,
201–202
,
210(epigraph)

Ziff, Sid,
53

Zimmerman, Paul,
54

MARJORIE TRAYLOR

Randy Roberts
is a Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue and the author of many books on sports, race, and pop culture, including
Rising Tide: Bear Bryant, Joe Namath, and Dixie's Last Quarter
(coauthored with Ed Krzemienski),
Joe Louis: Hard Times Man, Papa Jack: Jack Johnson and the Era of White Hopes
,
Jack Dempsey: The Manassa Mauler
, and
John Wayne: American
(coauthored with James S. Olson). His biography of Joe Louis was named a Best Book of 2010 by
Kirkus
and
Choice,
his biography of John Wayne won the Pat and Ray Browne National Book Award in 1995, and his book on the Alamo won the Texas Historical Foundation's Deolece Parmalee Award. Roberts was a consultant for HBO's documentary
Joe Louis: American Hero
. . .
Betrayed
and for Ken Burns's Emmy-winning PBS documentary
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.
Roberts lives in Lafayette, Indiana.

EVIE PEREZ

Johnny Smith
is an assistant professor of American history at Georgia Tech. He is the author of
The Sons of Westwood: John Wooden, UCLA, and the Dynasty That Changed College Basketball
, which was named an Outstanding Academic Title by
Choice
. Smith lives in Atlanta, Georgia.