Joe Louis

 Joe Louis

Joe Louis was born being the son of a sharecropper. Joe Louis was a quiet individual who would learn the sport of boxing and dominate. Joe Louis was a boxer in the 1930s who had defended the boxing championship for twenty five different fights on a time when there was segregation in America. During segregation, Louis was one of the few boxers who was African American. He was noted to be one of the greatest boxers of all times. Louis was able to defeat his opponents by being disciplined and dedicated to the sport of boxing. 

Louis would lose one match against Max Schmeling who was German. In a time of segregation, racists cheered Louis' defeat for being African American and a great boxer. In 1938, it was noted that Hitler was a racist and was persecuting individuals based on their race. Louis would train harder and finally had a rematch against Schmeling. 

When Hitler had voiced his deranged ambition of racism masqueraded as socialist nazism, Louis beat Schmeling in the first round of the match. Louis was appreciated as a hero for being American and having beaten a nazi. 

Louis would die in 1981 and President Ronald Reagen would give a eulogy at Louis' funeral. He was commemorated as a hero. Joe Louis was a national hero who defended his heavyweight championship belt twenty five times. This describes the importance of competition and being able to improve. While living in times of segregation in the United States with Jim Crowe laws and hostility, Joe Louis improved amidst racism and envy being one of the greatest boxers of all times commemorated by Reagen.