Earl Huff

Name: Earl Huff
Birth Name: Earl L. Huff
Hometown: Camden, New Jersey, USA
Birthplace: Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1997-06-28 (Age:75)
Pro Boxer: Record

Huff served in the Army during World War in the Pacific Theater with an all-black battalion.

After his boxing career, Huff became a priest in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in 1950. He was later elected as a bishop in 1978, serving congregations in the Northeast United States. Huff was a civil rights activist during the 1960s in Newark, amid the city's riots.

Source: "The Bishop's Scrapbook", Camden Courier-Post, October 11, 1994