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The mounting menace of Detroit's Brown Bomber checked by a man already regarded as a has-been. Here is the dramatic scene as the dazed Joe Louis rocked on his knees for the final count of his fight with Max Schmeling at the Yankee Stadium, New York City

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1936 December 16 [From A Photograph Taken In June, 1936]
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  1. African Americans
  2. Boxing
  3. Louis, Joe
  4. New York
  5. New York (State)
  6. Photographic Prints
  7. Schmeling, Max
  8. Social Life

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