Joe Louis in "Spirit of Youth" (1938)

ID: 762 ~ Source: "Spirit of Youth" (1938), Internet Movie Database.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030781/ ~ Date: 1938

This file appears in: Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theater: Screening of Joe Louis's “The Spirit of Youth” Sparks Controversy in 1938

Movie poster for Harry L. Fraser's "Spirit of Youth," starring Joe Louis, World Heavy-Weight Champion.

This file appears in: Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theater: Screening of Joe Louis's “The Spirit of Youth” Sparks Controversy in 1938

Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theater: Screening of Joe Louis's “The Spirit of Youth” Sparks Controversy in 1938

By Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D.

In February 1938, Joe Louis was just starting his reign as heavy-weight champion of the world, having won the title the previous June when he knocked out James J. Braddock. Portsmouth, Ohio, like the…