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. The two ...

Popular sentiment has Joe Louis fighting not only for the heavyweight championship, but also for democracy as Max Schmeling unwittingly represents Adolf Hitler and fascism. Actually, the German boxer ...

The 1938 match between a Black boxer, Joe Louis — an American — and a German, Max Schmeling, marks its 85th anniversary today, but mythologizing it into a cartoon triumph over Jim Crow and Nazis ...

In the 1930s, with the country staggering under the Depression and looming international threats, many Americans looked to boxing for heroes on which they could project their hopes and fears. Two of ...

New York, June 19 -- The cow killed the butcher, the condemned man knocked off his executioner, a million dollar business crashed into bankruptcy and there was weeping and wailing in Harlem when Max ...

Before he became heavyweight champion of the world, Joe Louis’s mother forced him to play the violin. Or so she thought. She handed over a quarter a week for lessons. But he never showed up, choosing ...

In New York’s Yankee Stadium last week, Germany’s Max Schmeling knocked out Detroit’s Negro Joe Louis in the twelfth round of a scheduled 15-round prizefight. The bout was watched by a crowd of 40,000 ...

In 1936, German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling knocks out previously unbeaten Joe Louis in the 12th round. Schmeling’s victory sets off a propaganda war between the Nazi regime and the United States ...

Just off the boat -- A regime's embrace -- A star rises in the Midwest -- New York falls in love -- Champion in waiting -- The condemned man -- Victor and vanquished -- Climbing back -- A German ...

Realizing that whatever else he may be, Fisticuffer Joe Louis is certainly not Aryan, the potent Nazi Reichssportblatt (Reich Sport Paper) suddenly demanded last week that the prize fight between the ...