At Basketball in the Barrio, children from Segundo Barrio and Chamizal neighborhoods participate in El Paso’s annual summer camp where they gain leadership, literary and basketball skills while celebrating border culture.
Boxing in El Paso
Search these prize fighters in the historical newspaper database linked below.
"Australian Billy" Smith / Charles E. Matthews-- Boxing champion, Rough Rider with Teddy Roosevelt and El Paso detective and more
Acosta, David
Garcia, Rafael Boxing cutman who worked with Merriweather
Online pdf index to El Paso historian Fred Morales' many local history books on areas of town such as the Segundo Barrio, Chihuahuita, Smeltertown, Downtown, Aoy and Bowie Schools, Cemeteries, Ciudad Juarez, the History of Transportation and much more! Does not include his History of Bowie High School: 1922-1973. Compiled by EPCC Librarian Marsha Labodda
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1881 - current.
