How Racist Car Dealers KO’d Joe Louis A never-before-published tranche of letters reveals the white-collar racism that prevented the world’s most popular athlete from selling Fords.

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Joe Louis was a titan, the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion for more than 12 years (with a record 23 title defenses) and probably the greatest American hero of the 20th century.

“Joe Louis: Hard Times Man” By Randy Roberts Yale University Press, 308 pages, $27.50 Joe Louis was a titan, the undisputed heavyweight champion for more than twelve years (and a record 23 ...

On his 100th birthday (he was born May 13, 1914, in Alabama), LIFE celebrates the man known to several generations as the 'Brown Bomber.' ...

When Joe Louis climbed into the Yankee Stadium ring to box German Max Schmeling before 70,000 screaming fans on June 22, 1938, it was a rematch fraught with political implications.

As Randy Roberts wrote in Joe Louis: Hard Times Man, "Attempts to recover the money between 1951 and 1962 made Louis' life a financial hell. Agents wrote him letters and called him on the phone.

Penn State coach's 868-page file shows he received series of threatening letters in 70s and 80s; No ... Joe Paterno , 1926-2012 25 photos ... Former FBI Director Louis Freeh led a recent Penn ...

Randy Roberts' biography "Joe Louis: Hard Times Man" tells the story of the heavyweight fighter whose fight against German boxer Max Schmeling symbolized America's yearning for equal opportunity ...

Those are 11 ways to say, “Joe Louis is Black.” The file, collated by Ford’s marketing research department, contains 32 letters by dealers and regional and district managers.