"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. "By winning, he became white America's first black hero." Louis was ...
A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...
Witness: Pearl Harbour In January 1942, the US Navy announced a list of commendations for ... But his legacy has lived on as one of the first African American heroes of World War II.