“As orderly an assemblage”: New York Evening Journal, June 26,1935.
“all but arm-in-arm”: Washington Tribune, June 29,1935.
“first chance in ten years”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, July 6,1935.
“Go Down, Moses”: Detroit News, June 26,1935.
“Look-a-here, folks”; “Eat Joe Louis peanuts”: Baltimore Afro-American, July 6,1935.
“gaudily meatish”: San Francisco Examiner, March 7,1935.
“You are as safe as at 42nd and Broadway”: Chicago Tribune, June 26,1935.
“I’m tired of this handshakin’ business anyway”: New York Evening Journal, June 26, 1935.
“all the noise that had preceded”: Detroit News, June 26,1935.
“Joe Louis is a fighter, not a talker”: New York Post, June 26,1935.
“a sort of lame-duck”: Ibid., June 27,1935.
“The American Negro is a natural athlete”: New York Sun, June 27,1935.
“In Africa there are tens of thousands”: New York Mirror, June 27,1935.
“like comparing Lou Gehrig with Al Capone”: New York Herald Tribune, June 30,1935.
“You see him awake in bed”: Binghamton News, June 28,1935.
“a healthy Negro boy”: Detroit Times, June 27,1935.
“colored champion of the world”: Baltimore Afro-American, August 10,1935.
“a secret New York conclave”: Collyer’s Eye, July 6,1935.
“Louis deserves the right”: Boston Post, July 8,1935.
“vitamins C, A, S and H”: Chicago Tribune, June 28,1935.
“Max isn’t interested in the title”: Detroit Free Press, June 27,1935.
“If the Daily Worker really wanted”: Amsterdam News, July 6,1935. 89 “Each victory of Louis”: Associated Negro Press, July 6,1935.
“hot cha brown-skin girls”: New York Evening Journal, June 27,1935.
“lets things inside of bottles STAY INSIDE OF BOTTLES”: Chicago Defender, July 6,1935.
“The white world of sports”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, July 13,1935.
“Harlem’s got some money today”: New York Herald Tribune, June 27,1935.
German culture “negrified”: Johnpeter Horst Grill and Robert L. Jenkins, “The Nazis and the American South in the 1930s: A Mirror Image?” Journal of Southern History 58 (1992), p. 671.
“out of a healthy spirit”: Angriff, November 25,1930.
“In every Negro, even in one of the kindest disposition”: Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte, No. 1/1933 (Munich: F. Eber Nachf., 1933), pp. 12–13.
“Negroes don’t have anything to grin about”: Hans Massaquoi, Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany (New York: William Morrow, 1999), p. 108.
“This law is not inhumane”: Berliner illustrierte Nachtausgabe, May 3,1933.
“uniquely and colossally dangerous”: Box-Sport, July 1, 1935.
“Lehmgesicht”: Ibid., April 22,1935.
“ever-grinning and sneering”: Ibid., November 29,1933.
“I had rather live in the Rhineland”: Crisis, February 1935.
“with hatred in their eyes”: Martin Duberman, Paul Robeson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), pp. 184–85.
“The Americans again have all the trump cards”: Völkischer Beobachter, September 7, 1935.
“twelve slow and thrill-less rounds”: Universal Service, July 8,1935.
“jüdische Börsenjobber”; “very close to treason”; “Jewish behavior”: Bundesarchiv, Auszug aus dem Stenographischen Verhandlungsbericht über die Beratung der Ratsherren am 27. März 1936: Landesarchiv Berlin, LAB A Rep. 001-02, Nr. 953.
“One word from Joe, and Max does as he pleases”: New York Evening Journal, July 26, 1935.
“Schmeling! Schmeling! Who’s got Max Schmeling?”: New York Times, July 16,1935.
“never saw the day”: Ring, October 1935.
“I am convinced he’s been giving us all”: Chicago Tribune, July 28,1935.
“He talks like he was Dempsey”: Ibid.
“Who in hell does he think he is anyway?” New York Herald Tribune, July 27,1935.
“They always say that he is black”: Box-Sport, August 20,1935.
HAIL, JOE LOUIS: Der Kicker, October 10,1935.
“the body of a caribou”: Paterson Evening News, August 7,1935.
“the glorified fish peddler of Maxwell Street”: Chicago Daily News, August 3,1935.
“Boy, I bet that dawg”: Chicago Tribune, August 8,1935.
“at the rail of ocean liners”: Chicago Herald and Examiner, August 8,1935.
“Don’t let him hit me again, Mister!”: New York Daily News, August 9,1935.
“I must have been in a transom”: New Orleans Item, June 18,1936.
“the gayest jubilee Chicago’s Negroes have ever enjoyed”: Chicago Herald and Examiner, August 8,1935.
“You can kill me”: Baltimore Afro-American, September 27,1935.
“His personality is more impressive”: Amsterdam News, August 24,1935.
Sportscaster calling Louis a “nigger”: Chicago Defender, August 17,1935.
“Dodge him?”: New York Sun, August 9,1935.
“I don’t care who’s in the other corner”: New York Times, September 19,1935.
Chapter Five: Champion in Waiting
“epitome of Negro progress”: Washington Post, August 29,1935.
“get a peek at Joe”: Washington Star, August 29,1935.
“Just to see him”: Washington Daily News, August 28,1935.
“How you, Mr. President?” Chicago Defender, August 31,1935.
“Joe, you certainly are a fine looking young man”: Baltimore Afro-American, September 7,1935.
“whether it was Joe Louis who greeted the President”: Amsterdam News, August 31, 1935.
“Joe, we need muscles like yours”: New York Times, November 10, 1948.
“Impossible”: 12 Uhr-Blatt, September 24,1935.
“The Punch Without the Smile”: Baltimore Afro-American.:, August 24,1935.
“smooth and full of punch”: Ibid., June 22,1935.
“Send me some money so that I won’t be put out”: Baltimore Afro-American, June 15, 1935.
“You really is my kind of man”: Chicago Defender, August 24,1935.
“Joe Louis Is the Man”: Rounder Records Corp., Rounder 82161-1106-2.
“He’s in the Ring (Doin’ the Same Old Thing)”: Ibid.
“a worth while [sic] addition to the library”: Chicago Defender, September 21,1935.
“When white children want to be called”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, August 17, 1935.
“Aren’t the papers wonderful about Joe Louis?” Carl Van Vechten to James Weldon Johnson, September 27,1935, James Weldon Johnson Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
“The last thing I wanted Joe and Jesse”: Pittsburgh Courier, July 6,1935.
“usually no good for a year”: Baltimore Afro-American, June 13,1935.
“where our beauticians are prepared”: Amsterdam News, July 27,1935.
“not overlong making up her mind”: Baltimore Afro-American, September 24,1935.
“Miss Trotter, who had been employed”: Chicago Defender September 7,1935.
“so massive and sparkling”: Amsterdam News, September 28,1935.
“Marva is an old-fashioned girl”: Baltimore Afro-American, September 14,1935.
“Sure, she can cook southern fried chicken”: Chicago Tribune, August 8,1935.
“Louis’ mind will be on the girl friend”: Chicago Daily News, September 6,1935.
“representing all walks of life”: Pittsburgh Courier, September 21,1935.
“He’d go for coffee”: Interview, Truman Gibson.
“She is a mixed-blood”: Box-Sport, September 24,1935.
“become pestiferous and interfere”: Ibid.
“If they can learn to put as many punches into their sermons”: Baltimore Afro-American, September 21,1935.
“Joe Louis im
pressed me as a quiet”: Kansas City Call, September 20,1935.
“He lives like an animal, untouched by externals”: New York Daily News, September 24,1935.
“The Ring Robot”: New York Sun, September 4,1935.
“He can fight, sure”: September 5, 1935, in Julian Black Scrapbook, Library of Congress.
“Among ofays, who seem to bewilder him”: Amsterdam News, September 14,1935.
“The statue was a social sort of fellow”: Baltimore Afro-American, May 30,1935.
“paper chins”: New York World-Telegram, September 9,1935.
“Joe Louis: Will This Black Moses”: Fortune, October 1935.
“All those who, because of their grandmothers’ illness or death”: Box-Sport, October 15,1935.
“bride-elect”: Amsterdam News, September 28,1935.
“winsome lass”: Baltimore Afro-American, September 28,1935.
“New York was the delta, and towns”: Pittsburgh Courier, September 21,1935.
“The entire colored population of greater New York”: Box-Sport, September 3,1935.
“a first-class funeral”: Angriff, September 24,1935.
“I haven’t seen bills like that since 1928”: New York Morning Telegraph, September 25, 1935.
“Up to just a few months ago, no one believed the fistic game”: New York American, September 23,1935.
“something Roman”: New York Daily News, September 24,1935.
“an array of palookas”: Atlanta Journal, September 23,1935.
received a shot of “cocaine”: Ring, December 1935.
“the loudest suit even Broadway”: Daily Express (London), September 25,1935.
“If my heart ain’t just right”: New York American, September 25,1935.
“You could fight twice”: Ibid.
“To hell with the foreman”: New York Daily News, September 26,1935.
“real ermine”: Amsterdam News, September 28,1935.
“any more than you could take a broom”: Wichita Beacon, September 23,1935.
“the outer fringes of the stadium looked”: Chicago Tribune, September 25,1935.
“I dreamed about the fight not long ago”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, September 21, 1935.
“Kill him, Joe! Kill him!”; “Please don’t do that”: New York Daily News, September 25, 1935.
“the Negro who came here all the way from Alabama”: Macon Telegraph, September 25,1935.
“Through it all, the fleeting action of a second”: Chicago Tribune, September 25, 1935.
“There were so many Joe Louises”: Boston Globe, September 26,1935.
“I wonder if his new bride’s heart”: New York Daily News, September 25,1935.
“I guess I could have got up again”: New York Mirror, September 26,1935.
“When I get executed”: Look, December 20,1938.
“That’s a great fighter”: Boston Globe, September 25,1935.
“If you folks is all through”: Chicago Herald and Examiner, September 26,1935.
“Why attempt to describe it?”: Amsterdam News, September 28,1935.
“Forget repeal. Forget Prohibition”: New York World-Telegram, September 25,1935.
“With one hand on the horn button”: Detroit Evening Times, September 25,1935.
“Joe Louis has driven the blues away from Beale Street”: Associated Press, September 25,1935.
“noisy canyons of romping humanity”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, September 28, 1935.
“They seeped out of doorways”: New Masses, October 8, 1935.
“Some young fellow now playing marbles”: New York Sun, September 26,1935.
“too good to be true, and absolutely true”: Esquire, December 1935.
“To my friend Max Schmeling”: New York Daily News, September 26,1935.
“Mr. Louis, what makes you happier”: VA 8259, Hearst Metrotone Newsreel Collection, UCLA Film and Television Archive.
“Joe will be the kingpin as long”: New York Morning Telegraph, September 26,1935.
“In deepest Mississippi as well as in highest Harlem”: Crisis, November 1935.
someone “could go down to Washington”: Amsterdam News, October 5,1935.
“All sportsmen, more especially the Coloured races of the world”: Bantu World (Johannesburg), September 28,1935.
“might tend to arouse racial animosity”: Baltimore Afro-American, October 19,1935.
“a promising young savage of 17 or 18”: New York American, September 26,1935.
“sweet recompense for a degrading past”: New York Post, September 27,1935.
“Gypsies, Negroes, and their bastards”: Gesetz zum Schutz des deutschen Blutes und der deutschen Ehre. Gesetz vom 15. September 1935, RGB1 I, 1935, S. 1146f., clarified by Wilhelm Frick, Reich Minister of the Interior, in Deutsche Juristenzeitung, December 1,1935.
“a purebred white European”: 8 Uhr-Blatt, September 26,1935.
“Negroid-Jewish matters”: Deutsche Presse, no. 42/1935, p. 519.
“In America, once so full of racial pride”: Fränkische Tageszeitung, September 26, 1935.
“Joe is very delicate”: Associated Negro Press, October 2,1935.
“Isn’t it superb the way the press and public”: Letter, Walter White to John Roxbor-ough, September 26,1935, in NAACP I, C-335, NAACP Papers, Library of Congress.
“Mr. and Mrs. James McDonald”: Ibid., October 12,1935.
“You busy businessmen, who crowd everything into your heart”: Chicago Defender, August 17,1935.
“in fighting pose”: Philadelphia Tribune, September 12,1935.
“We only hope that he will be as clean a sportsman”: Baltimore Afro-American, October 19,1935.
“streaked pell-mell across the field”: Ibid., October 26,1935.
“She’s nice to look at”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, October 12,1935.
“Marva is sweet”: Pittsburgh Courier, December 7,1935.
“Instead of beautiful headlines of interest”: Chicago Defender, October 5,1935.
“I found him charming”: Letter, Eslanda Robeson to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Van Vechten, November 21,1935, Van Vechten Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
“just about the toughest darky we ever had in these parts”: New York Daily News, October 9,1935.
“big and strong as an ox”: Camden (New Jersey) Courier-Post, September 28,1935.
“could easily pass for Indian braves”: Ibid., September 27,1935.
“None of them is dark-skinned like the average southern Negro”: Ibid.
“coolness and cunning”: Radio Guide, June 20,1936.
“If Schmeling wants gold he can get”: Daily Mail (London), September 26,1935.
“an ambitious, determined fighter”: Box-Sport, November 18,1935.
Louis no “überboxer”: Angriff, October 19,1935.
“loamface”; “masterpiece of bluffing”: Völkischer Beobachter, October 19,1935.
“This Negro is no champion”: Box-Sport, October 21,1935.
“exert a positive influence on the right people”: Schmeling, Erinnerungen, p. 322.5,367
“white hope”: Box-Sport, December 2,1935.
“knight in shining armor”: Ibid.
“New York’s Jewish Mayor” and his “wire pullers”: New York Times, July 27,1935.
“ten degrees colder than the weather”: New York Daily News, December 7,1935.
“a joke” to quit Olympics: New York Herald Tribune, December 7,1935.
“I’d like to fight this Bomber”: New York Times, December 7,1935.
“A million and a half”: New York Sun, December 7,1935.
“The first time I get him alone”: New York Daily News, December 7,1935.
“In retrospect, it was incredibly naïve”: Schmeling, Erinnerungen, p. 324.
“But Joe, that would hardly be fair to your wife”: Van Every, Joe Louis, p. 176.
“See how he stands in front, and open”: New York Daily News, December 9,1935.
“
I can report faithfully”: Ibid.
JOE LOUIS LOOKS LIKE JOE PALOOKA: New York Herald Tribune, December 9,1935.
“all we heard was Louis”: Washington Post, December 8,1935.
“I’ve got him sewed up like a sweater”: North American News Service, September 12, 1935.
“through as gentlemanly conduct”: New York Morning Telegraph, December 17,1935.
“hurt everyone sitting within”: Washington Post, December 15,1935.
“the swiftest and most explosive”: New York American, December 14,1935.
“I no queet!”: New York Daily News, December 14,1935.
“He dropped his chin”: New York Morning Telegraph, December 15,1935.
“I don’t want to kill anybody in this business”: Chicago Defender, December 21, 1935.
“No mere words are adequate”: New York Herald Tribune, December 15,1935.
“Grins at Start”: Washington Post, December 15,1935.
“I vill tell you something, Choe”: Topical Times, July 9,1938.
“If Schmeling is as smart as I think he is”: New York Daily News, December 15,1935.
“best indication that the race problem in the United States is still alive”: Box-Sport, December 23,1935.
“When did this ‘palooka’ appoint himself”: Pittsburgh Courier, January 4,1936.
“Do you know how long”: New York Daily News, December 17,1935.
“I have discovered that Louis can be hit by a right hand”: New York Herald Tribune, December 14,1935.
“what you would call a good investment”: Saturday Evening Post, August 29,1936.
Chapter Six: The Condemned Man
“Sho’ ’nuff if I’m dead”: New York Mirror, December 22,1935.
“first million”: Pittsburgh Courier, January 11, 1936.
“Do you think I’m crazy”: New York Daily News, February 20,1936.
“Boxers, managers, promoters, manufacturers”: Ring, January 1936.
“One man—Joe Louis—has done more for boxing”: Ibid., May 1936.
“Tall men, skinny men, fat men, roly-poly men”: Ibid., January 1936.
“It’s a commercial affair with me”: Ibid.
“a worse whipping than Mrs. Barrow ever gave him”: New York Age, January 11,1936.
“Benedict Arnold”: Chicago Defender, February 22,1936.
“‘Uncle Tom’ Johnson”: Pittsburgh Courier, March 2,1936.
“A jimsonweed in the nostrils”: Norfolk Journal and Guide, June 13,1936.
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