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

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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

Portsmouth NAACP Protests Jim Crow at the Westland Theater

Capitalizing on Joe Louis's new won fame, Hollywood movie director Harry L. Fraser would cast Louis to star in "The Spirit of Youth," which told the story of the boxer's rise from poverty and obscurity to world champion and Jazz Age celebrity life.…