Joe Louis: Integrating Golf in America
Channel: Joe Louis Bourbon
Date: 2022-02-01

Did you know that Joe Louis was instrumental in helping to integrate golf?  He competed as an amateur at first, and back in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan, he sponsored the Joe Louis Open in 1941. And when he was first denied entry into the 1952 San Diego open, He challenged it and became the first person of color to compete in a PGA-sanctioned event. 

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