Early Life
African American, Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee on May 12, 1906. He dropped out of school but eventually started boxing at age 18. He was 1.75m (5' 9") tall and weighed 145 pounds.
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“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)