Joe Louis was the 10-to-1 favorite over the German boxer Max Schmeling before their first bout on June 19, 1936. Each man was fighting for a shot at the world heavyweight boxing championship.

Some of boxing’s greatest punchers and their iconic fights include Joe Louis who was also known as the "Brown Bomber." Louis had an incredible ability to deliver precise and powerful punches ...

"Even white folks on the job that would say nigger 50 times a day, that would say boy this and boy that, would light up when they talked about Joe," says civil rights activist Dick Gregory about ...

Max Schmeling serves as a pall bearer. Joe Louis is inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and acknowledged as one of the 20th century's great heavyweight champions. His career ...

Few people know that there is a Buffalo connection with the late, great heavyweight boxing champion, Joe Louis. He was a diminutive but dynamic local businessman and community builder. Marshall ...

The son of an Alabama sharecropper, great grandson of a slave, great great grandson of a white slave owner became the first African-American to achieve lasting fame and popularity in the 20th century.