Joe Louis

“I hope they’re still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.”

- Joe Louis, one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. He was the world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949.

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Sources: Van Vechten, Carl, photographer. Portrait of Joe Louis, Greenwood Lake, N.Y. Sept. 15. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2004663215/>