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While in the army, he boxed 100 exhibition bouts. Louis died of a heart attack in Paradise, Nevada on April 12, 1981. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. He has an arena named after him, the Joe Louis Arena where the Detroit Red Wings play.
African American boxer Joe Louis was world heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1948. He defended his title twenty times in four years. Joseph Louis Barrow, born on May 13, 1914, was the seventh of eight children of Munroe Barrow and Lily Reese. His father was an Alabama sharecropper and died when Joe was four. His mother took in washing to support her family. Joe was close to his large family, particularly to his mother, from whom he inherited a deep religious sentiment.