Joseph Louis Barrow was the son of an Alabama sharecropper, “Munn Barrow,” on May 13th, 1914. His family struggled with poverty throughout his childhood. When Joe was only three years old his father had walked out on him and his family. Several years later his mother married another tenant farmer, Pat Brooks. She moved with him and her family to Detroit in 1924, which is where Joe got his first taste of boxing. Joe’s mother couldn’t give her children much in the way of money or educated advice, but she had a strong sense of right and wrong, and had a firm hand when needed.

Joe grew up with a tough Detroit street gang. His name, Joseph Louis Barrow, was shortened to Joe Louis, and that’s how he’s b

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