Louis, who was African American, was born in 1914 as Joe Louis Barrow in rural Alabama. His family moved to Detroit early in his childhood at a time when the Motor City’s population Black ...

There is no reflection upon the principals. …” Thereupon Sergeant Joe Louis (Barrow) returned to his chores at Fort Riley, Kans., Corporal Billy Conn to his at Fort Wadsworth, N.Y. Off for the ...