Statue Erected In Alabama For Boxing Great Enemy of Hitler

An eight-foot bronze statue of “The Brown Bomber” Joe Louis will be unveiled Saturday in the International Boxing Hall of Famer’s hometown of LaFayette, Alabama.  Residents of the town of approximately 3,000 people managed to raise nearly $60,000 over a span of three years to pay for the sculpture to be built. The statue of Louis, which has a base of Alabama red granite, will be situated outside of the Chambers County Courthouse in LaFayette. Louis (65-3-0-1, 51 KOs), who in 2005 was named the greatest heavyweight ever by the International Boxing Research Organization, was born six miles northwest of LaFayette in 1914. “The Brown Bomber” transcended boxing and he is widely considered to be the first black man that the American public openly supported. Louis, who volunteered to enlist in the United States Army in1942, possessed keen footwork and agility and he was blessed with tremendous power in both of his fists. As the boxing-obsessed character, Mendy Ripstein, empathically declared in the movie

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