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Biography of Boxer Joe Louis: Nicknamed the Brown Bomber

Joe Louis Barrow entered the world on May 13, 1914. He was the seventh of eight children. Joe’s father, Munroe Barrow, was a not very successful cotton farmer, and in 1916 he was committed to the Searcy State Hospital for Colored Insane. Joe’s mother remarried and in 1926 the family moved to Detroit. In Detroit […]