Then a widely distributed recruitment poster (right) helped him become America’s first non-white national hero. It showed ‘Pvt. Joe Louis’ saying: ‘We’re going to do our part ...

It inspired a popular recruiting poster and a widely circulated poem titled “Joe Louis Named the War.” Louis later agreed to fight Abe Simon to benefit Army Relief. Once again, the champ ...

From the Great Depression through World War II and into the 1950s, Joe Louis was the poster boy for the American way of life. In 1938, when Louis defeated Germany's Max Schmeling, his victory was ...

I was seven years old and there was no television 85 years ago, the night Joe Louis fought his rematch against Max Schmeling. But much later, during a 72-year career as a sports columnist ...