Most people walk past the bronze fist at Jefferson and Woodward and don't know the story behind it. Let me tell you about Joe Louis. Born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama, 1914. Grandson of a slave. His mother moved the family to Detroit's Black Bottom during the Great Migration. They were packed into crumbling homes because restrictive covenants kept Black families from living anywhere else. Joe delivered ice to wealthy white families, building the shoulders that would carry a nation's hope
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Most people walk past the bronze fist at Jefferson and Woodward and don't know the story behind it. Let me tell you about Joe Louis. Born in a sharecropper's shack in Alabama, 1914. Grandson of a slave. His mother moved the family to Detroit's Black Bottom during the Great Migration. They were packed into crumbling homes because restrictive covenants kept Black families from living anywhere else. Joe delivered ice to wealthy white families, building the shoulders that would carry a nation's hope
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