The Great American Boxer - Joe Lewis and Nation in America

Zilka maria weinak iam is a professor of comparative literature and german studies at the university of michigan. Her research led her to this conclusion: joe lewis, without doubt, the most important athlete detroit has ever produced. Detroit was shaped by successive waves of migration and emigration beginning with migrations from eastern europe and from germany. The big player in this whole development was, without a question, henry ford and his five dollar a day promised to his workers. What was new and unheard of was that ford actually paid the same wages to black workers as to white workers.