Tony Joe Young, son of Bill and Emma (Rudd ... After graduating from high school in St. Louis, Missouri, Tony joined the Navy ...

That man was Joe Louis, the "Brown Bomber." Joe Louis was born in 1914 to a humble family in Alabama. From a young age, he faced the adversities of a country marked by racism and inequality.

In so doing, Joe Louis called a halt to a heavyweight ... Schmeling had beaten up the young Louis a couple of years previously, but the Brown Bomber annihilated him in the rematch, stopping ...

Joe Louis on the first Schmeling fight. AP/ Wide World Photos Young Joe Louis was fighting in Golden Gloves tournaments in Detroit when he was introduced to John Roxborough. A former basketball ...

"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 ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — A project like the Joe Louis Greenway has been years in the making, and as work continues to connect Detroit with three other cities, organizers ...

Twenty years after Johnson lost the heavyweight title to Jess Willard, a talented young boxer from Detroit named Joe Louis began to rise up the ranks of black fighters. In the first 11 months of ...