Joe+Louis

//Joe Louis // the brownbomer   //**Antonio ,andrew ,casey and austin**//

 > *  Joe Louis Barrow was born on May 13, 1914, in Alabama, the seventh of eight children, a grandson of slaves and one quarter Cherokee. When the boy was just two years old, his father, Munroe Barrow, was committed to an asylum. His mother Lily, a religious woman, worked hard and raised her children to have manners. She married again, to a widower named Pat Brooks with eight children of his own. Looking for a better life, Pat and Lily follow the path of many Southern black families, and moved their new family up to Detroit, where factory work was plentiful. **Shy Boy > ** Joe was shy, quiet, and uninterested in school, and so was often mistaken for being dumb. A friend took him to Brewster's East Side Gymnasium and introduced him to boxing. He fell in love with the sport. He shortened his name to Joe Louis so that his mother wouldn't find out, but she caught on eventually. "At first [Momma] looked unhappy," Louis recalled. "But she said that if any of us kids wanted to do something bad enough, she'd try to see that we got a chance at it. 'No matter what you do,' she said, 'remember you're from a Christian family, and always act that way. > ||  ||  Joe Louis  > //Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.//   ||   ||  || joe louis was the greatest black boxer if joe louis was not born we would have no one to call the gratest black boxer inthe world. joe louis was the hero of boxing if joe louis did not box it would be a shame.Today joe louis is still the gratest boxer known. > <span style="COLOR: #0dd31e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">(1914–81). With his powerful punches the U.S. boxer Joe Louis earned the nickname the Brown Bomber. Louis was heavyweight champion of the world for 12 years, longer than anyone else in the 20th century. During that period he defended his title 25 times. In a time of widespread racial segregation (the separation of blacks and whites), he was the first African American sports hero to be widely admired by whites. <span style="COLOR: #0dd31e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">
 * <span style="COLOR: #0dd31e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">He was the world heaveywheight chapion boxer for 11 years.
 * <span style="COLOR: #0dd31e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">He punch harder then anybody too.
 * <span style="COLOR: #0dd31e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">[[image:http://cache.eb.com/eb/thumb?id=2196 width="100" height="140" caption="Photograph:Joe Louis" link="http://school.eb.com/all/elementary/art-95252?articleTypeId=38"]] <span style="COLOR: #0dd31e; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">