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.

President Ronald Reagan arranges for Louis to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Max Schmeling serves as a pall bearer. Joe Louis is inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame ...

Joe Louis, in the far right corner, floored Max Schmeling three times and won their ... demanded a reported $1.2 million in back taxes, interest and penalties, and he suffered the humiliation ...

Louis was raised in Detroit and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time, but he ...

"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 ... his loss to Germany's Max Schmeling - viewed as a Nazi ...