"the body of a caribou": Paterson Evening News, Paterson Evening News, August 7,1935. August 7,1935.

"the glorified fish peddler of Maxwell Street": Chicago Daily News, Chicago Daily News, August 3,1935. August 3,1935.

"Boy, I bet that dawg": Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, August 8,1935. August 8,1935.

"at the rail of ocean liners": Chicago Herald and Examiner, Chicago Herald and Examiner, August 8,1935. August 8,1935.

"Don't let him hit me again, Mister!": New York Daily News, New York Daily News, August 9,1935. August 9,1935.

"I must have been in a transom": New Orleans Item, New Orleans Item, June 18,1936. June 18,1936.

"the gayest jubilee Chicago's Negroes have ever enjoyed": Chicago Herald and Examiner, Chicago Herald and Examiner, August 8,1935. August 8,1935.

"You can kill me": Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Afro-American, September 27,1935. September 27,1935.

"His personality is more impressive": Amsterdam News, Amsterdam News, August 24,1935. August 24,1935.

Sportscaster calling Louis a "nigger": Chicago Defender, Chicago Defender, August 17,1935. August 17,1935.

"Dodge him?": New York Sun, New York Sun, August 9,1935. August 9,1935.

"I don't care who's in the other corner": New York Times, New York Times, September 19,1935. September 19,1935.

Chapter Five: Champion in Waiting.

"epitome of Negro progress": Washington Post, Washington Post, August 29,1935. August 29,1935.

"get a peek at Joe": Washington Star, Washington Star, August 29,1935. August 29,1935.

"Just to see him": Washington Daily News, Washington Daily News, August 28,1935. August 28,1935.

"How you, Mr. President?" Chicago Defender, Chicago Defender, August 31,1935. August 31,1935.

"Joe, you certainly are a fine looking young man": Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Afro-American, September 7,1935. September 7,1935.

"whether it was Joe Louis who greeted the President": Amsterdam News, Amsterdam News, August 31, 1935. August 31, 1935.

"Joe, we need muscles like yours": New York Times, New York Times, November 10, 1948. November 10, 1948.

"Impossible": 12 Uhr-Blatt, 12 Uhr-Blatt, September 24,1935. September 24,1935.

"The Punch Without the Smile": Baltimore Afro-American.:, Baltimore Afro-American.:, August 24,1935. 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, Baltimore Afro-American, June 15, 1935. June 15, 1935.

"You really is my kind of man": Chicago Defender, Chicago Defender, August 24,1935. 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] [sic] addition to the library": addition to the library": Chicago Defender, Chicago Defender, September 21,1935. September 21,1935.

"When white children want to be called": Norfolk Journal and Guide, Norfolk Journal and Guide, August 17, 1935. 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, Pittsburgh Courier, July 6,1935. July 6,1935.

"usually no good for a year": Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Afro-American, June 13,1935. June 13,1935.

"where our beauticians are prepared": Amsterdam News, Amsterdam News, July 27,1935. July 27,1935.

"not overlong making up her mind": Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Afro-American, September 24,1935. September 24,1935.

"Miss Trotter, who had been employed": Chicago Defender Chicago Defender September 7,1935. September 7,1935.

"so massive and sparkling": Amsterdam News, Amsterdam News, September 28,1935. September 28,1935.

"Marva is an old-fashioned girl": Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Afro-American, September 14,1935. September 14,1935.

"Sure, she can cook southern fried chicken": Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, August 8,1935. August 8,1935.

"Louis' mind will be on the girl friend": Chicago Daily News, Chicago Daily News, September 6,1935. September 6,1935.

"representing all walks of life": Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh Courier, September 21,1935. September 21,1935.

"He'd go for coffee": Interview, Truman Gibson.

"She is a mixed-blood": Box-Sport, Box-Sport, September 24,1935. September 24,1935.

"become pestiferous and interfere": Ibid.

"If they can learn to put as many punches into their sermons": Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Afro-American, September 21,1935. September 21,1935.

"Joe Louis impressed me as a quiet": Kansas City Call, Kansas City Call, September 20,1935. September 20,1935.

"He lives like an animal, untouched by externals": New York Daily News, New York Daily News, September 24,1935. September 24,1935.

"The Ring Robot": New York Sun, New York Sun, September 4,1935. 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, Amsterdam News, September 14,1935. September 14,1935.

"The statue was a social sort of fellow": Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Afro-American, May 30,1935. May 30,1935.

"paper chins": New York World-Telegram, New York World-Telegram, September 9,1935. September 9,1935.

"Joe Louis: Will This Black Moses": Fortune, Fortune, October 1935. October 1935.

"All those who, because of their grandmothers' illness or death": Box-Sport, Box-Sport, October 15,1935. October 15,1935.

"bride-elect": Amsterdam News, Amsterdam News, September 28,1935. September 28,1935.

"winsome lass": Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Afro-American, September 28,1935. September 28,1935.

"New York was the delta, and towns": Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh Courier, September 21,1935. September 21,1935.

"The entire colored population of greater New York": Box-Sport, Box-Sport, September 3,1935. September 3,1935.

"a first-class funeral": Angriff, Angriff, September 24,1935. September 24,1935.

"I haven't seen bills like that since 1928": New York Morning Telegraph, New York Morning Telegraph, September 25, 1935. September 25, 1935.

"Up to just a few months ago, no one believed the fistic game": New York American, New York American, September 23,1935. September 23,1935.

"something Roman": New York Daily News, New York Daily News, September 24,1935. September 24,1935.

"an array of palookas": Atlanta Journal, Atlanta Journal, September 23,1935. September 23,1935.

received a shot of "cocaine": Ring, Ring, December 1935. December 1935.

"the loudest suit even Broadway": Daily Express Daily Express (London), September 25,1935. (London), September 25,1935.

"If my heart ain't just right": New York American, New York American, September 25,1935. September 25,1935.

"You could fight twice": Ibid.

"To hell with the foreman": New York Daily News, New York Daily News, September 26,1935. September 26,1935.

"real ermine": Amsterdam News, Amsterdam News, September 28,1935. September 28,1935.

"any more than you could take a broom": Wichita Beacon, Wichita Beacon, September 23,1935. September 23,1935.

"the outer fringes of the stadium looked": Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, September 25,1935. September 25,1935.

"I dreamed about the fight not long ago": Norfolk Journal and Guide, Norfolk Journal and Guide, September 21, 1935. September 21, 1935.

"Kill him, Joe! Kill him!"; "Please don't do that": New York Daily News, New York Daily News, September 25, 1935. September 25, 1935.

"the Negro who came here all the way from Alabama": Macon Telegraph, Macon Telegraph, September 25,1935. September 25,1935.

"Through it all, the fleeting action of a second": Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, September 25, 1935. September 25, 1935.

"There were so many Joe Louises": Boston Globe, Boston Globe, September 26,1935. September 26,1935.

"I wonder if his new bride's heart": New York Daily News, September 25,1935. September 25,1935.

"I guess I could have got up again": New York Mirror, New York Mirror, September 26,1935. September 26,1935.

"When I get executed": Look, Look, December 20,1938. December 20,1938.

"That's a great fighter": Boston Globe, Boston Globe, September 25,1935. September 25,1935.

"If you folks is all through": Chicago Herald and Examiner, Chicago Herald and Examiner, September 26,1935. September 26,1935.

"Why attempt to describe it?": Amsterdam News, Amsterdam News, September 28,1935. September 28,1935.

"Forget repeal. Forget Prohibition": New York World-Telegram, New York World-Telegram, September 25,1935. September 25,1935.

"With one hand on the horn button": Detroit Evening Times, Detroit Evening Times, September 25,1935. 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, Norfolk Journal and Guide, September 28, 1935. September 28, 1935.

"They seeped out of doorways": New Masses, New Masses, October 8, 1935. October 8, 1935.

"Some young fellow now playing marbles": New York Sun, New York Sun, September 26,1935. September 26,1935.

"too good to be true, and absolutely true": Esquire, Esquire, December 1935. December 1935.

"To my friend Max Schmeling": New York Daily News, New York Daily News, September 26,1935. 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, New York Morning Telegraph, September 26,1935. September 26,1935.

"In deepest Mississippi as well as in highest Harlem": Crisis, Crisis, November 1935. November 1935.

someone "could go down to Washington": Amsterdam News, Amsterdam News, October 5,1935. October 5,1935.

"All sportsmen, more especially the Coloured races of the world": Bantu World Bantu World (Johannesburg), September 28,1935. (Johannesburg), September 28,1935.

"might tend to arouse racial animosity": Baltimore Afro-American, Baltimore Afro-American, October 19,1935. October 19,1935.

"a promising young savage of 17 or 18": New York American, New York American, September 26,1935. September 26,1935.

"sweet recompense for a degrading past": New York Post, New York Post, September 27,1935. September 27,1935.