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 ...

Rewatching, and re-reading about, Louis’ title reign is to be reminded of three things above all: he had one of the best ...

"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 ...

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 ...