Boxing in the 1950s beaten by Pérez), won Japan's first world title, and Hogan Bassey won the first belt for Nigeria. Popular American fighters in the 1950s proved legendary: Sugar Ray Robinson would still win (and lose) world titles, Rocky Marciano became the only heavyweight world champion in history to retire with perfect record. Jersey Joe Walcott the oldest heavyweight champion (until George Foreman regained the title in 1994), Archie Moore broke the all-time knockout record as well as the record for the oldest champion, at 48, for "any" division, Ezzard Charles proved to be a reliable substitute for Joe Louis as heavyweight champ,
Bess Bolden Walcott moved to Painesville in Lake County. In June, 1908, Bolden graduated from Oberlin College and secured employment at Tuskeegee Institute. Bolden began her career as a science teacher at Tuskeegee and helped Booker T. Washington organize his library. In 1911, she married William Holbrook Walcott, who was also a professor at the Institute. In 1918, she began teaching English at the high school of the Institute. That same year, she pushed for the charter for a Red Cross chapter at Tuskegee. It would be the first black chapter granted in the United States. While Walcott was not the chairman, as