Joe Louis held the heavyweight boxing championship longer than any
other fighter and defended it a record 25 times. During the 1930s
and 1940s, the owner of the heavyweight title belt was the most
prominent sports competitor not aligned with a team sport. In
addition, Louis helped make breakthroughs for African American
athletes and bridge the gap of understanding between whites and
blacks. During World War II he not only raised money for Army and
Navy relief, entertained millions of troops as a morale officer,
but became a symbol of American hope and strength. In a famous
speech Louis pronounced that the United States would win the war
""Because we're on God's side."" The simple phrase helped energise
the populace and some said that Louis ""named the war."" The
biography of Louis outlines his rise from poverty in Alabama to
becoming the best-known African American of his times and describes
how an uneducated man, simple at his core, became so articulate and
always ended up on the side of right in the battles he fought, with
fist or voice.
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