Black Bottom, Time and Place
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We Invited Martha Music, Writer and Seminal Detroiter, to Share the History, and Her Memories, of Black Bottom
We Invited Martha Music, Writer and Seminal Detroiter, to Share the History, and Her Memories, of Black Bottom
Eighty years ago Detroit’s own Joe Louis defeated Jimmy Braddock to become world heavyweight champion. The June 22, 1937 historic bout at Chicago’s Comiskey Park was a career-establishing win for the handsome 23-year-old. Moreover, it was a win for marginalized black America, in general, and