{"id":1530,"date":"2018-09-24T12:19:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T19:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2018-09-24T12:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T19:31:46","slug":"louis-joe-joseph-louis-barrow-1914-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"LOUIS, JOE (JOSEPH LOUIS BARROW), 1914-1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boxer; heavyweight champion.\u00a0Born&#8211; May 13, 1914, Lexington, Chambers County. Parents&#8211; Munrow and Lilly (Reese) Barrow. Married&#8211; Marva Trotter, September 24, 1935. Children&#8211;two. Married&#8211;Rose Morgan, 1955. Married&#8211; Martha Jefferson, May 11, 1951. Children&#8211; four. Competed 1934-1951. Honors&#8211; Won the light heavyweight championship of the National Amateur Athletic Union, 1934; world professional heavyweight champ, 1937-1949; retired as champion; served as greeter, Caesar&#8217;s Palace, Las Vegas, Nev. Named fighter of the year four times by <em>The Ring <\/em>magazine.\u00a0 Ranked the best heavyweight of all time by the International Boxing Research Organization, 2005. First African-American to appear in a PGA event.\u00a0 Many sports facilities were named in his honor; a statue was erected in front of the Chambers County Courthouse; first boxer to appear on a postage stamp, 1993. Died April 12, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1980, My Life Story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How to Box. Philadelphia; D. McKay, 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Louis, My Life. New York; Harcourt, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>My Life Story. New York; Duell, Sloan, 1947.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Boxer; heavyweight champion.\u00a0Born&#8211; May 13, 1914, Lexington, Chambers County. Parents&#8211; Munrow and Lilly (Reese) Barrow. Married&#8211; Marva Trotter, September 24, 1935. Children&#8211;two. Married&#8211;Rose Morgan, 1955. Married&#8211; Martha Jefferson, May 11, 1951. Children&#8211; four. Competed 1934-1951. Honors&#8211; Won the light heavyweight championship of the National Amateur Athletic Union, 1934; world professional heavyweight champ, 1937-1949; retired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8803,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions\/8803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}