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	JOE LOUIS - THE BROWN BOMBER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Joe demonstrated under-rated footwork in obtaining punching angles as he slid left and countered with sizzling right hands, and slid to the right firing hammering hooks, and he caught Godoy coming in with smashing uppercuts with both hands.
		Joe Louis had the speed, accuracy, power and explosiveness to take out bigger, slower, modern heavyweights, which is one reason Louis shines brightly in the eyes of boxing historians.
		Louis was knocked out of the ring by Buddy Baer in their first fight but calmly climbed back in like nothing happened and immediately took control of the fight.
	www.fightbeat.com /judgejake/jlouis.php (2232 words)

	Joe Louis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joe Louis Barrow was born in Chambers County, Alabama, and was the son of Monroe Barrow, a sharecropper, and Lilly Reese, a homemaker.
		Joe Louis died of a heart attack in 1981.
		Joe Louis is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Louis (1752 words)

	Joe Louis - MSN Encarta
		Louis won his first professional contest by a knockout in 1934.
		Louis won the bout in one round, and Americans celebrated the victory of democracy.
		After the second Schmeling fight, Louis became a hero for the World War II war effort, gave inspirational speeches, and helped with recruiting.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575029/Joe_Louis.html (226 words)

	IBHOF / Joe Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Louis won his first 27 fights, 23 by knockout, beating the likes of former heavyweight champions Primo Carnera and Max Baer and contenders Paolino Uzcudun and Natie Brown.
		Although he was dropped early in the bout, Louis rose from the canvas to score an eighth-round knockout.
		In 1947, Louis was dropped twice by Jersey Joe Walcott but managed to hang onto the title by a controversial split decision.
	www.ibhof.com /jlouis.htm (612 words)

	Arlington National Cemetery:: Visitor_Information
		Joe Louis' proper name was Joe Louis Barrow, but when he fought his first amateur fight, he signed up as "Joe Louis." His career skyrocketed and he became universally known.
		Joe Louis suffered only one defeat in his first 69 fights, and that was at the hands of Germany's great Max Schmeling, the reigning world heavyweight champion, on June 19, 1936.
		Louis is remembered for the famous "Bum-of-the-Month" tour, during which Joe defended his title with a fight each month for a full year.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.org /visitor_information/joe_louis.html (1017 words)

	Joe Louis (Barrow), Sergeant, United States Army
		Joe Louis, who held the heavyweight boxing championship of the world for almost 12 years and the affection of the American public for most of his adult life, died yesterday of cardiac arrest in Las Vegas, Nevada.
		Louis was born Joseph Louis Barrow on May 13, 1914, in the cottonfield country near Lafayette, Alabama, the eighth child of Munn and Lilly Barrow.
		When Joe Louis fought, fls in ghettos across the land were indoors glued to their radios, and when Louis won, as he nearly always did, they hit the streets whooping and hollering in celebration.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /joelouis.htm (3905 words)

	Joe Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		PW: Joe Louis in the 1920s and 30s lived in a highly segregated Detroit where the fl population was a distinct minority relegated to this one small district.
		Joe worked through the ranks of ham-and-eggers, progressively tougher fighters, and by the time he was twenty had a record of 12-0 and was starting to get noticed.
		Joe Louis became the most famous fl person in America and there was incredible jublilation throughout every fl community in the country.
	goodfelloweb.com /werbe/joe_louis.htm (1981 words)

	Joe Louis
		Joe Louis, as he now referred to himself (supposedly because including the name Barrow would be too long to fit on his trunks), went on to become a finalist in the 1933 Golden Glove's in Boston and win the 1934 National AAU light heavyweight championship in St. Louis.
		Joe's friends had advised him against turning professional suggesting it would be better to stay with the certainty of a steady job at the plant and warning him of the perils of professional boxers, citing Jack Johnson and others.
		Joe Louis died on April 12, 1982 of a heart attack and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery by order of President Ronald Reagan.
	www.duboislc.org /ShadesOfBlack/JoeLouis.html (1093 words)

	ESPN.com: 'Brown Bomber' was a hero to all
		Louis was heavyweight champion of the world in an era when the heavyweight champion was, in the minds of many, the greatest man in the world.
		Joe was learning cabinet-making in a vocational school and taking violin lessons when he turned to boxing at the request of a schoolmate.
		Louis won his first 27 fights, 23 by knockout, with his most impressive victories being a sixth-round TKO of Primo Carnera and a fourth-round KO of Max Baer, both former heavyweight champions.
	espn.go.com /sportscentury/features/00016109.html (1324 words)

	ESPN.com - CLASSIC - Boxing's Greatest Fighters: Joe Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Joe Louis used his words as he did his punches, with a commendable economy of effort, saying a surprising number of things, and saying them in a way we all wish we had.
		Joe Louis was granted a special place as a superhero by enthusiastic reporters, who believed he was the most dependable story in sports, and by the public, who began to view him as invincible.
		Louis would avenge his loss to Schmeling with a 124-second annihilation that would set back the cause of the Master Race and bring joy to millions to Americans, and then embarked on what was charitably called "The Bum of the Month Campaign," giving every heavyweight challenger a job, much like the WPA.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/classic/news/story?id=2441173 (864 words)

	American Experience \| The Fight \| People & Events \| PBS
		Joe Louis Barrow was born on May 13, 1914, in Alabama, the seventh of eight children, a grandson of slaves and one quarter Cherokee.
		Joe was shy, quiet, and uninterested in school, and so was often mistaken for being dumb.
		Louis had won his first 27 professional bouts, 23 by knockout -- and was the 10-1 favorite in the fight against Schmeling.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/fight/peopleevents/p_louis.html (1142 words)

	United States of America Congressional Gold Medal Recipient Joe Louis, Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World!
		Joe Louis in recognition of her late husband's accomplishments which did so much to bolster the spirit of the American people during one of the most crucial times in American history and which have endured throughout the years as a symbol of strength for the Nation.
		Joe Louis, May 11, after presenting her with the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony in the Oval Office.
		Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was only 24 when he was cast as the defender of freedom and democracy in a symbolic struggle against the Nazis and their theories of racial superiority.
	www.congressionalgoldmedal.com /JoeLouis.htm (1257 words)

	Joe Louis: Power, Perfection and Complete
		Joe Louis was a stalker who pressured his opponents, but it wasn't overwhelming pressure like Rocky Marciano and Joe Frazier applied.
		What set Louis apart from other big punchers was that he could box and fight from the outside, or he could go inside and tear up an opponents body bringing their hands down, thus providing an opening for his short chopping rights to the chin.
		Louis strong torso and powerful leg muscles generate much of his vaunted punching power from the hip.
	coxscorner.tripod.com /louis_fl.html (2290 words)

	Joe Louis Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Joe Louis, born on May 13, 1914, was the son of an Alabama sharecropper.
		Joe was close to his large family, particularly to his mother, from whom he inherited a deep religious sentiment.
		Louis married Marva Trotter and had two children by her; they were twice divorced.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/joe-louis (629 words)

	Joe Louis vs. the IRS [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]
		Joe Louis, the "Brown Bomber from Detroit," captured the heavyweight boxing crown by knocking out James Braddock in eight rounds.
		Louis wanted private citizens to solve many of the problems that Americans were increasingly turning to government to solve.
		Joe Louis would want to be remembered as a champion, a patriot, and a role model for children.
	www.mackinac.org /article.aspx?ID=22 (1014 words)

	What the Press Say
		Louis Kavouras is a beautiful, expressive performer, capturing with real insight the pain and dislocation at the end of a love affair.
		Joe, eight humorous, poignant solos created during the past fifteen years, is a window into a character at a turning point.
		Louis Kavouras, his dance, and choreography are very interesting: a talented, elegant, creator and dancer, smooth and winding, tall in stature, pleasant, physical, light and expressive, like an ascending angel.
	www.joesuniverse.org /press.html (1331 words)

	Super Hero - Joe Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Joe Louis Barrow, the son of Alabama sharecroppers, was born in 1914 at the beginning of World War I. By World War II, he was known as the "Brown Bomber"—and would go on to become perhaps the greatest prizefighter this country has ever known.
		Louis, his siblings, and his mother moved from the Deep South to Detroit when Joe was 12.
		Louis was an African American who symbolized the free world and also the pride of the African people.
	www.black-collegian.com /issues/35thAnn/louis.shtml (529 words)

	Joe Louis Arena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joe Louis Arena, nicknamed Hockeytown, The Joe, and JLA, is a hockey arena located at 600 Civic Center Drive in Detroit, Michigan.
		Joe Louis Arena is owned by the city of Detroit and operated by Olympia Entertainment, Inc., an Ilitch Holdings, Inc. -owned company.
		Joe Louis Arena was the site of the decisive Game 5 of the 2006 WNBA Finals between the Sacramento Monarchs and Detroit Shock on September 9, due to the Palace of Auburn Hills (the Shock's usual home arena) already being used for a Mariah Carey concert on the same day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Louis_Arena (578 words)

	Film Review: "Joe and Max": Joe Louis in the Fights of His Life
		Before Muhammad Ali became the greatest, there was Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber, who fought at a time when African Americans looked to a Black heavyweight champ to potently symbolize our fight, might and possibility of victory.
		"Joe and Max," premiering on the Starz movie channel, March 9 at 8 p.m., is a better than decent attempt at telling the story of Louis's life as it intertwined with that of Max Schmeling, the German boxer with whom he fought two pivotal fights during his career.
		When Louis knocked out Schmeling in a rematch, fortunes changed for Schmeling, who was ultimately sent to the frontlines to fight allied soldiers itching to claim his dog tags as a prize.
	www.seeingblack.com /x031402/joelouis.shtml (560 words)

	Joe Louis: America's Fighter by David A. Adler, illustrated by Terry Widener — Harcourt
		Joe Louis was married four times, twice to Marva Trotter, and once each to Rose Morgan and Martha Malone Jefferson.
		Joe Louis was the second African American heavyweight champion.
		While Joe Louis was training for the second Schmeling fight, he met President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
	www.harcourtbooks.com /JoeLouis/authorsnote.asp (248 words)

	Vignette: Joe Louis
		Before the first match, Louis had become somewhat complacent after his string of victories and the press calling him “invincible.” Schmeling won the 1936 match, knocking Louis out for the first time in his career.
		Three years later, when Germany and America went to war, Louis enlisted in the Army and served with, and was an inspiration for, another famous fl athlete, Jackie Robinson.
		Incidentally, when Louis was broke, Max Schmeling, who had actually opposed Hitler, but became a successful businessman after the war, gave Lewis money to help him out.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/louis_joe.htm (340 words)

	Biography for Joe Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Joe Louis is considered by many fistic experts and fans as the greatest Heavyweight Boxing Champion in the sport's history.
		Born into a poor family, Joe Louis's mother felt the only way her son could escape poverty was through music.
		Joe Louis was buried with full-military honors, and it was said that he was "most" proud of his European-African-MiddleEastern Medal and his Victory Medal World War II.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0521876/bio (618 words)

	Joe Louis Arena
		Joe Louis Arena is also the exclusive site for world-class Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus.
		Joe Louis Arena sold-out concert events have included Luther Vandross, Janet Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Luciano Pavoarotti.
		The arena was called the "Joe Louis Warehouse" when it opened in 1979 because it looks so vast and bleak inside, but when Mike and Marian Ilitch bought the team in 1982, they did some redecorating.
	users.california.com /~csuppes/NHL/DetroitRedWings (532 words)

	Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, MI - AOL City Guide
		Though "The Joe" struggled early on trying to replace the legendary Olympia Arena as one of the NHL's holiest of holy places, three Stanley Cup Championships between 1996 and 2002 have made hallowed this ground on the banks of the Detroit River in the shadow of the Renaissance Center.
		Joe Louis Arena seats 19,983 fans for hockey games -- not including the octopi hurled onto the ice by overzealous fans -- and is consistently one of the toughest tickets to find in Detroit when the Red Wings are in town.
		Cobo Joe's Bar is just two blocks away, as is the Post Bar, a favorite gathering spot for Red Wings players and fans.
	cityguide.aol.com /detroit/entertainment/joe-louis-arena/v-104762194 (685 words)

	SI.com - Writers - Frank Deford: Remember Joe Louis whenever race card is played - Wednesday April 12, 2006 12:54PM
		Joe Louis dealt with racism in an age when fl athletes weren't accepted at all.
		Louis was born in segregated Alabama, raised in the Negro ghetto of Detroit.
		Both those who practice racism and those who exploit it in sport are descending, and the fresh wreath that lies upon Louis' grave today speaks as much for his legacy as for his memory.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2006/writers/frank_deford/04/12/joe.louis (581 words)

	The Official Site of Joe Louis
		Joe Louis burst onto the professional boxing scene in 1934 with style and skill such as the boxing world has seldom seen.
		Known to many as the "Brown Bomber," Louis emerged victorious from his first 27 fights, all but four of which he won in knockouts.
		It was here that Louis delivered to the entire world a premonition of the reign of domination that he was to begin.
	www.cmgworldwide.com /sports/louis/index.php (172 words)

	Joe Louis Arena - Schedule and Concert Tickets - Detroit, MI
		Joe Louis Arena Tickets are available now at TickCo Premium Seating.
		Joe Louis Arena opened in 1979 and is owned by the City of Detroit.
		Note: The correct spelling is Joe Louis Arena not Joe Lewis Arena.
	www.tickco.com /venue_schedules/Joe_Louis_arena.htm (200 words)

	Joe Louis — Infoplease.com
		Joe Louis - Joe Louis Born: May 13, 1914 Boxer world heavyweight champion from June 22, 1937 to Mar. 1, 1949;...
		Joe Louis became both a fl hero and a national symbol to whites after overcoming racism in the media.
		Time on their hands; Hockey lockout leaves Joe Louis Arena with lots of dates to fill.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0830408.html (494 words)

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