Joe Louis
vintage photo

   

Here is an oversize vintage photo of Joe Louis while serving his country in the U.S. Army... His promoter, Mike Jacobs, is on the far right with American flags dominating the background... The image is very clear in-person and is vintage framed and matted!!

measures
photo: 14.5 x 18.25"
overall: 19 x 22.75"
condition
photo: fine
frame: several scraps and dings

$165
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Joe Louis: 50 Years An American Hero

  
 
    While some blacks believe that every black with a name should be out there carrying the banner, I believe that there are many ways to do that. Joe Louis carried it the best way he knew how--by using the skill with which he was endowed. In that sense he was a leader.
    Joe Louis was an American hero, especially during the war years. But while white Americans loved him and cheered for him, he was still a black. And the rules applied to all blacks. They cheered for him when he went into the Army, but he went into a segregated Army. He fought to make the world safe for democracy, but in a segregated situation. The people that were cheering for Joe Louis were the same people who, when Lena Horne went to Arkansas to sing for the troops, put the German prisoners in better seats than the black enlisted men.
 		  
 

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Former President, National Urban League, Inc.
 

  
 

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