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 much-publicized June 22, 1938 rematch at Yankee Stadium in a first-round knockout. In a time when his people ...

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