Career
The 5"10" Anderson fought out of Oakland, California as a light heavyweight. He was the last holder of the World Colored Light Heavyweight title. On May 30, 1921, he fought Kid Norfolk for the new colored light heavyweight title in a scheduled 10-round bout in Phoenix, Arizona.
(They would meet another three times in non-title bouts between 1922 and 1924, and The Kid prevailed each time)
When Norfolk fought The Jamaica Kid on December 20, 1921 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, he had claimed the world colored light heavyweight title.
He beat the Jamaica Kid on points in an eight-round bout. In Atlanta on January 30, 1922, Norfolk faced Tiger Flowers, the boxer who would become the first African American world middleweight champ in 1926, K.O.-ing him in third round of a 10-rounder.
Wills outweighed him by 25¾ lbs. On May 9 of that year, Lee Anderson took on Tiger Flowers in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico for a 15-round bout to determine the colored light heavyweight title.
Anderson apparently vacated the title in turn, and Kid Norfolk took the crown title for the second time one day short of a year later, on May 8, 1923, when he K.O.-ed Flowers in the at 2:50 in the first round of a scheduled 12-rounder.
The title then went into abeyance. Anderson retired from the ring. By 1942, he was living in a boardinghouse in Harlem and working as a stevedore on the Hudson River waterfront.
