When Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling in a 1938 rematch ... In the famous New York neighborhood, a center of African American culture and home of the cultural flowering known as the Harlem ...

"What my father did was enable white America to think of him as an American, not as a black," said his son, Joe Louis Jr. "By winning, he became white America's first black hero." Louis was ...

In so doing, Joe Louis called a halt to a heavyweight reign that remains unequaled in its number of consecutive defenses: 25 (or 26 if one includes a quasi-exhibition in 1944), over a span of 11 ...

When Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling in a 1938 rematch ... In the famous New York neighborhood, a center of African American culture and home of the cultural flowering known as the Harlem ...

Joe Louis, in the far right corner, floored Max Schmeling three times and won their much-publicized June 22, 1938 rematch at Yankee Stadium in a first-round knockout. In a time when his people ...