Parks - Louis shared parallels2005-11-01 · Detroit Free Press Sports - Other Sports
When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., she set in motion a revolution not unlike the one started by the shot heard around the world -- the American Revolution. Her heroic life in the battle for civil rights shares some obvious similarities to the life and times of another African-American hero, Detroit's famed heavyweight champion Joe Louis ...…